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An Automatic PCI Assignment Framework for Femtocells in LTE Networks

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Mechatronics 2017 (MECHATRONICS 2017)

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Evolving mobile networks are requested to transport an increasing data traffic as a result of popularity of online services together with accessibility of modern mobile devices among people. A solution that can help mobile operators to quickly deploy base stations, ensuring great indoor coverage with minimum costs, and providing high data rate capabilities, poses a femtocell concept. As femtocells are expected to be costumer-deployed in great numbers, they have to be effectively managed and configured. Among parameters that should be automatically configured belong a physical cell identifier, called physical cell identity (PCI). However due to limited range of available PCI values and collisions and/or confusions may occur in the network. In this paper, we propose a centralized automatic PCI configuration scheme for femtocell networks that can integrate algorithms and proposals of other authors as well.

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Acknowledgement

This research work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague, grant no. SGS13/199/OHK3/3T/13.

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  1. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Marek Sedlacek & Robert Bestak

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Mathematics, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Březina

  2. Faculty of Mechatronics, Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Ryszard Jabłoński

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Sedlacek, M., Bestak, R. (2018). An Automatic PCI Assignment Framework for Femtocells in LTE Networks. In: Březina, T., Jabłoński, R. (eds) Mechatronics 2017. MECHATRONICS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 644. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65960-2_14

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