Rate-Based Pricing Framework in Hybrid Access Femtocell Networks

In femtocell networks, it is a challenge to motivate femtocell access points (FAPs) to adopt hybrid access policy and provide services to accessed macrocell user equipments (MUEs) in access control mechanism investigation. In this letter, we propose an incentive framework within which the macrocell base station (MBS) provides profit to femtocells by pricing accessed MUEs' transmission rates guaran...