EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 2 Simulation parameters

From: Hybrid spectrum arrangement and interference mitigation for coexistence between LTE macrocellular and femtocell networks

	Macrocell	Femtocell
System bandwidth	20 MHz (co-channel)	20 MHz (co-channel)
	15 MHz (dedicated)	5 MHz (dedicated)
Cell layout	Hexagonal grid, 19 BSs,	Circular cell,
	3 sectors per eNB	1 sector per HeNB
Antenna gain	BS:15 dBi, UE:0 dBi	BS:5 dBi, UE:0 dBi
Cell radius	289 m	10 m
Pathloss	128.1+37.6 log10d,	127.0+30 log10d,
	d in [km]	d in [km]
Lognormal shadowing	8 dB	10 dB
Penetration loss	20 dB	20 dB
BS TX power	49 dBm	20 dBm
UE power class	23 dBm	23 dBm
BS noise figure	5 dB	5 dB
UE noise figure	9 dB	9 dB
Thermal noise level	-174 dBm/Hz	-174 dBm/Hz
Number of UEs	10 per sector	4 per cell

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