This paper evaluates the performance of uplink transmission in an LTE/Wi-Fi coexisting
heterogeneous network (HetNet), where user equipments (UEs) capable of jointly …

The concept of energy-efficient networking has begun to spread in the past few years,
gaining increasing popularity. Besides the widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, such …

Optical networks can support a large amount of IP traffic in the next generation of networks
with energy efficiency awareness. However, the ever increasing demand of IP traffic also …

Hybrid fiber-wireless (FiWi) networks become rapidly mature and represent a promising
candidate for reducing power consumption, costs, and bandwidth bottlenecks of next …

Energy consumption is a major challenge in IoT devices, which was aimed to be improved
by employing energy-efficient objective functions (OFs) in the structure of the RPL routing …

To deal with the explosion connections and data volume for emergency communication or
hot spot capacity enhancement with massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices, deploying …

The past few years have witnessed a rapid growth of IoT-based wireless systems in different
sectors. The IoT heterogeneous devices, which typically, are battery-constrained, have to …

In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous network (HetNet) system with a cloud control
center to dynamically manage small base stations (SBSs) based on traffic load. The cloud …

Traffic growth is anticipated to be 1000 times in future fifth generation (5G) networks, which
necessitates dense deployment of small cells in a heterogeneous environment. Currently …

Interference management and power transfer can provide a significant improvement over
the 5th generation mobile networks (5G) dense Internet of Things (IoT) heterogeneous …