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Abstract
Long term evolution (LTE) is standardized by the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) and considered the latest development in the field of mobile communication system. The aim of LTE is to achieve high data rates, minimum latency with higher performance and low cost. The increasing demand of good quality voice traffic and high speed data streaming in mobile networks propels the deployment of femtocells to enhance indoor coverage and improve network capacity. Although, the several advantages of the femtocell technology, there are several open issues for its dense deployment. These issues include physical cell identity (PCI) confusion/collision, handover between cells and femtocells access control. In this thesis, we present a Proof of Concept of the Extended Synchronization Signals (ESS), more specifically; we investigate the impact of ESS concept on the LTE cell search procedure. Briefly, the ESS concept is based on replacing the padding bits in primary and secondary synchronization signals, which are used in the cell search procedure, by additional information bits