ICT4D: Femtocells network versus wi-fi network for mobile communication
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Akinlabi, Akindeji O.; Joseph, Meera
- Source
- 2017 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET) Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), 2017 International Conference on. :1773-1777 Mar, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Femtocells
Wireless fidelity
Internet
Ad hoc networks
Femtocell networks
Broadband communication
Wireless communication
Femtocells vs Wi-Fi networks
ICT4D
- Language
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a major role in infrastructure development in African countries. Wi-Fi network has become one of the widely accepted technologies used for the Internet at various levels of environment such as indoor/outdoor. Nevertheless, the introduction of femtocell as a new technology for development plays other vital roles for Internet connectivity for mobile cellular and laptop, particularly at the indoor coverage. These two technologies are both beneficial to the subscriber for quality performance of the service of the mobile provider. Femtocells attracted attention in for the telecommunication industry rather than the traditional wireless network. The interesting part is femtocell has the additional service such as a security feature. In this paper, the comparative analysis of both technologies will be presented based on VoIP test results. In this paper we are to get an understanding of the deployment of Femtocell over the deployment of Wi-Fi networks which will play a role in developmental programs. We provide recommendations on benefits of using femtocells in the context of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development).