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 A Home Base Station (HBS) is character-ized by very low costs, plug-and-play in-stallation, low transmission power, use ofexisting fixed broadband (typically, digitalsubscriber lines) backhaul and usually

limits access to a closed user group, suchas, household members. Mass adoption ofHBs will strongly influence the local areaevolution towards International MobileTelecommunications-Advanced (IMT- Advanced) and create new business op-portunities for mobile operators. 

Main focus

The possible unplanned nature of the HBSinstallation and operation, coupled with

the need to co-exist with conventional(macrocellular) mobile wireless networksmakes the HBS concept technically chal-lenging. The HOMESNET project will seekto address these technical challenges, as

well as, to contribute in the regulatory andstandardisation initiatives that serve tobring the HBS concept to forefront asmainstream in-building solution. At themoment the driving forces behind the HBSconcept are large European operators andmanufacturers. Therefore it is expectedthat project will strengthen overall positionof European players on the markets. TheHOMESNET project also intends to con-tribute to Panlab by setting up a testbed totest and verify Home Base Station (HBS)

Project ID: CP6-009Start Date: 1 July 2009

Closure date: 30 June 2012 

Partners:Partners:Partners:Partners:

 Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

 ALTO University, Finland

European Communications Engineer-ing, Finland

France Telecom, France

INOVEL Electronics and SoftwareSystems Ltd., Turkey

Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

MostlyTek, Israel

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy, Finland

Optiway, Isarel

PRISM - University Versailles, France

Sequans, France

Turkcell, Turkey

VTT Technical Research Center,Finland

CoCoCoCo----ordinator:ordinator:ordinator:ordinator:

Olivier Marcé

 Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

E-mail:Olivier.Marce@alcatel-lucent.com

Project WebsiteProject WebsiteProject WebsiteProject Websitewww.celtic-initiative.org/projects/homesnet 

Homesnet

Home Base Station:

An Emerging Network Paradigm

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About CelticAbout CelticAbout CelticAbout Celtic

Celtic is a European research and

development programme, designed to

strengthen Europe’s competitiveness

in telecommunications through short

and medium term collaborative R&D

projects. Celtic is currently the only

European R&D programme fully dedi-

cated to end-to-end telecommunicati-

on solutions.

Timeframe: 8 years, from 2004 to

2011

Clusterbudget: in the range of 1

billion euro, shared between govern-

ments and private participants 

Participants: small, medium

and large companies from tele-

communications industry, univer-

sities, research institutes, and

local authorities from all 35 Eure-

ka countries. 

Celtic OfficeCeltic OfficeCeltic OfficeCeltic Officec/o Eurescom, Wieblinger Weg 19/4,

69123 Heidelberg, Germany

Phone: +49 6221 989 405, e-mail:office@celtic-initiative.org

www.celtic-initiative.org

concept and the continued evolu-tion towards IMT-Advanced. Thistestbed will provide a valuablerepository of test cases and resultsmade available (without violatingIntellectual Property Rights of rele-vant parties) to the wider researchcommunity. Approach

To make HBS a success story forEuropean industry, HOMESNETwill consider the evolving HBSconcepts and their evolution fromtechnological, economical andservices viewpoint;

It will show through simulations theimpact of the proposed architec-ture and OAM enhancements tothe performance of combinedHBS/Femto BS and macro-cellular

networks. It will also create andtest practically viable interferencecontrol methods for HBS/FemtoBS systems. An experimental test-bed will be used to further demon-strate various HBS concepts de-veloped within the project

It will create improved operationsand maintenance (OAM) capabili-ties. This includes means for moni-toring and remote management aswell as advanced algorithms foranalysis and potentially usage ofradio signal measurements in or-der to support interference model-ling. It will also address the futurerequirements of OAM for IMT- Advanced and related standardi-zation issues.

It will address different architectureoptions. For example in the 3GHigh Speed Packet Access(HSPA) and Long Term Evolution

(LTE) there are various architec-ture options. In the future it is im-portant to find the best trade-off interms of backward compatibility,scalability and cost efficiency. Ar-chitecture should also enable ef-fective control and management ofthe network and it should be future

proven in the sense that it pro-vides good basis for emerginglocal area evolution towards IMT- Advanced systems.

It will point out main charactersthat make certain services andapplications especially suitable forlocal area systems based onHome- and Femto-cells. It will alsoconsider HBS as a potential Hubover other home devices and cre-ate techno-economical models forthe emerging ecosystem. It willdevelop means for improved local-ization, emergency, and publicsafety applications.

Main results

The major results that are ex-pected from the project are thefollowing:

♦Cost-effective, scalable and fu-ture proven HBS system archi-tecture for 3G evolution.

♦Guidelines for HBS concept evo-lution towards IMT-Advanced.

♦Services and applications. Thisincludes localization, emergencyresponse, and public safety ap-plications.

♦Techno-economical models forthe HBS ecosystem.

♦Performance evaluation for com-bined HBS/Femto BS andmacro-cellular networks.

♦ Interference control methods forHBS/Femto BS systems.

♦Effective, simple and innovativeOAM system for emerging HBSconcepts and local area networkextensions.

♦Mobility algorithms adapted tocontiguous femto-cell wide areacoverage.

♦Optical HBS backhaul solutionsto avoid bandwidth exhaust oflegacy broadband solutions.

Results are contributed into stan-dards development organizationsand shared with industry forums(e.g., Femto Forum, GSMA Femto

Working Group etc.) so as to en-courage and expedite adoption ofstandards-based HBS solutions.

Impact

HOMESNET project will help inkeeping R&D competence as wellas Intellectual Property Rights(IPRs) owned by European indus-try.

Expected impact areas are

♦Results will help to find newbusiness opportunities beyond

those that are already knownfrom research related to compet-ing technologies. These opportu-nities are related to both servicesand technology.

♦Project will provide technical andeconomic information about bot-tlenecks in home BS mass de-ployment. This information willgive an advance for Europeanoperators while competing onhome markets.

♦Project will guide and support

standardization activities on thisdevelopment area. While 3GPPstandardization is characterizedby a hectic development of bitlevel details, project will providebetter environment to developbasic new ideas and thus, havea fundamental impact to futurestandards.

♦ Interoperability problems areexamined and results can bedirectly applied to practise. 

♦The always increasing demand

on capacity will make the use ofdeployment schemes based oncontiguous Femto-cells the long-term solution enabling very high-capacity (~1Gbps/KM2).