21 BeFEMTO-An Industrial Introduction to Femtocells.mp4

Visit FP7 BeFEMTO EU project:http://www.ict-befemto.eu/ Abstract: Broadband services play a crucial role in stimulating and fuelling world's economy and given the uncertain economic environment of the globe and recession fears and realities, it is becoming increasingly obvious that in order to convert negative growth to positive, broadband bases needs to be expanded more widely. This is where ubiquitous broadband femto cells naturally fit in and provide a bridge to fixed wireline and mobile cellular broadband technologies enabling a kind of fixed-cellular convergence. One of the biggest technical drivers of broadband femto cell technology is their ability to allow significant spatial reuse of spectrum resulting in enhanced capacity of the system without huge investment into expensive network infrastructure. Thus, femto cells continue this proven method for capacity increase to a new unprecedented level and they do it in an efficient manner, because these are low power and low cost small devices kept in user premises (also called Home Base Stations) and connected to the cellular network via a broadband connection over digital subscriber line (DSL), cable modem or through fibre optic lines. Femto cells have the capability to off-load the burden from the cellular networks thereby enabling them to better optimise their performance and focus on problematic coverage areas. This also helps operators to have savings on network operational costs. In contrast to conventional requirement of dual-mode handsets to provide both in-home and mobile services, femto cell technology enables the use of existing handsets promising a true fixed-mobile convergence. This talk will thus review the emerging scenarios, growth, business case, and latest industrial tendencies related to femto cells. It will serve as an introduction to the technical talks over subsequent days during this femto school. Biography: Thierry Lestable received Engg. Degree, and Ph.D from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (Supelec) in 1997, and 2003 respectively. He has 14+ years experience in leading edge Wireless Telecommunications, is author of 40+ international publications, and 25+ patents. (Editor of 1 Wiley book, and co-author in 2 Wiley books). Within Alcatel labs (1998-2003), Dr. Lestable investigated Multi-Carrier Wireless Systems paving the way to 4G cellular systems. Then from 2004, Dr. Lestable was with Samsung Electronics Research Institute (SERI) (UK), headed the Advanced Technology Group, focusing on Advanced Channel Coding (LDPC), Iterative processing and Cross-Layer for MIMO-OFDM based systems. He actively contributed to IEEE 802.16m, and 802.20 standards, whilst participating into European research projects (FP6-WINNER-I and II) towards IMT-Advanced systems, and creating FP7-DAVINCI Consortium (Advanced Channel Coding). Since 2008, Dr. Lestable is Technology & Innovation Manager in SAGEMCOM (Paris, France) within CTO office, where he helps steering, refining and consolidating strategic options. As such, he is closely following/participating standards, industry groups (e.g. ETSI TC M2M, 3GPP LTE, Femto Forum, IEEE 802.16, IEEE P1905.1...), research forums, together with collaborating with institutional agencies, industry and academic partners. Dr. Lestable is expert for the European Commission (FP7) and Eureka Cluster CELTIC, and chaired the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Expert Group in eMobility European Technology Platform. He is also the Project Manager of FP7-BeFEMTO European research project targeting next generation LTE-based Femtocells, initiated the FP7-EXALTED project dedicated to LTE-based M2M communications, and highly contributed to the creation of French national project EconHOME addressing Green ICT for Smart Digital Connected Home. Since 2010, Dr.Lestable is member of the Telecom Steering Board from System@tic Competitiveness Cluster in France, and teaches the M2M course in Supélec. In 2011, Dr.Lestable chaired two (2) International Workshops on Femtocell technologies, within IEEE VTC Spring (Budapest, Hungary), and ICT Future Network & Mobile Summit (FuNEMS). He was also co-chair of the "International Workshop on M2M Communications: 'Key' to the future Internet of Things (IoT)" in conjunction with Globecom 2011, Houston. --BeFEMTO (Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks) Winter School-- LTE-Advanced Femtocells.