The spiraling growth of mobile data traffic has fuelled the development of future-generation
cellular networks. Datahungry applications have gained massive popularity owing to the …

The exponential increase in high rate traffic driven by a new generation of wireless devices
is expected to overload cellular network capacity in the near future. Femtocells have recently …

This paper presents a novel framework to derive the statistics of the interference considering
dedicated and shared spectrum access for uplink transmission in two-tier small cell networks …

We analyze the area energy efficiency (AEE) of a cellular network employing spatial
multiplexing (SM), maximal ratio transmission and transmit antenna selection (TAS) …

Femtocells are deployed in the coverage area of traditional macrocell networks and can
provide high data rates and good quality of service with low transmission power. In order to …

The rise in the plethora of handheld devices, fuelled by increasing demand for personalized
wireless user experience has led to the wide-scale deployment of heterogeneous cellular …

One promising approach to expand the coverage and enhance the performance of cellular
networks is to employ multitier cellular networks. In this paper, an uplink two-tier …

The Poisson point process (PPP) has been widely used in wireless network modeling and
performance analysis due to the independence between its nodes. Therefore, it may not be …

This paper proposes an analytical model to investigate the impact of interference on the
uplink capacity and coverage in a WCDMA network where macrocell and femtocells co …