Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future

By Jeffrey G. Andrews, Holger Claussen, Mischa Dohler, Sundeep Rangan, Mark C. Reed. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2012

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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