Recently, mobile communications have been widely used in people's everyday lives. Their
handover process facilitates people to transfer an ongoing call or a data session from one …

Heterogeneous networks enable mobile users to stay connected anytime and from
anywhere, providing a platform for multiple radio technologies to cooperate in order to …

The ping-pong Handover (HO) in LTE is one of the most crucial problems which decrease
the performance of the Handover. The impact of ping-pong HO on inter eNB handover in …

Abstract Femto Access Points (FAP) and Device-to-Device (D2D) communications have
recently been considered as potential candidates for 5G network densification and cell-edge …

With the increasing demand on data rate in 5G mobile networks, the deployment of small
cells such as Femto Access Points (FAP) and device-device (D2D) communications in …

In LTE networks, handover optimization is necessary to enhance the users' satisfaction.
Specifically, users using real time traffic need to experience continuous connectivity. Hence …

Handover is one of the essential components in the mobility management of wireless
systems. It allows the client equipment (UE) to connect between LTE-A networks. The …

LTE-A networks consists of numerous networking technologies and do not possess a central
controlling system. In general, users can navigate freely within a network without losing the …

Due to the development of femtocell technologies, indoor LTE/LTE-A signal quality can be
significantly improved. However, since femtocells and macrocell are deployed into a …

With the emblematical expansion of telecommunication networks, high data rate, and low
latency for User Equipment (UE) has arisen. 3GPP introduced Long Term Evolution (LTE) …