Handover (HO), as a key aspect of mobility management, plays an important role in
improving network quality and mobility performance in mobile networks. Especially, in 5G …

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) have been regarded as the key technology for fifth
generation (5G) communications to support the explosive growth of mobile traffics. By …

5G New Radio proposes the usage of frequencies above 10 GHz to speed up LTE's existent
maximum data rates. However, the effective size of 5G antennas and consequently its …

The scarcity of network resources and the contention between resources and traffic volume
have been the most critical network performance bottlenecks due to the booming growth of …

Drone applications in 5th generation (5G) networks mainly focus on services and use cases
such as providing connectivity during crowded events, human-instigated disasters …

In ultra-dense cellular networks (UDNs) with user/control plane (U/C) splitting, frequent
handovers in user planes are unavoidable, which seriously degrades the transmission …

With the great increase of connected devices and new types of applications, mobile
networks are witnessing exponential growth of traffic volume. To meet emerging …

Next generation wireless cellular networks will be ultra dense network (UDN) to increase
system capacity through spatial reuse in a hot spot, but with the cost of increasing handover …

Currently, to ensure seamless roam across heterogeneous wireless technologies, efficient
vertical handoff algorithms are required to enhance QoS and offer reliable pervasive …

With the emergence of mobile edge computing (MEC), the edge cloud with certain
computing power is deployed closer to the mobile device, which can well solve the …