LTE femto cells classes

8th December
2011

Access points classification per 3GPP

TS36.104

Category A& category B exist for each class.

Proposed LTE Femto Classes (WIP)

Class 1 Residential

Class 2 Enterprise

Class 3
Hotspot/Metr
o

Class 4
Picocell

Peak DL data
rate (Mbps)

50

100

150

300

Peak UL data
rate (Mbps)

25

50

50

75

Min. # users
per TTI

16

32

Min. # of DL
antennas

Min. # of UL
antennas

RxDiv

20 MHz

20 MHz

20 MHz

20 MHz

20

24

30

>30

< 30 km/h

< 30 km/h

>30 km/h

>30 km/h

UMTS
Capability

Backhaul
capability
(Mbps)

Min.
bandwidth
Max. Tx
power (dBm)
Max. UE
speed