The emerging 5G mobile network technology is envisioned to provide an efficient platform to
interconnect machines, objects, and devices in addition to interconnecting people. Equipped …

Handover is one of the key components in cellular network mobility management and has
the most stringent latency requirement on service interruption time since the end-user …

The densification of base station (BS) deployments is driving the evolution of network
structures towards heterogeneous ultra-dense networks (UDN), making coordinated …

The fifth generation (5G) network is an upcoming standard for wireless communications that
coexists with the current 4G network to increase the throughput. The deployment of ultra …

To provide satisfactory Quality of Service (QoS) on the move, efficient mobility management
is indispensable to provide mobile users with seamless and ubiquitous wireless …

Mobile connections and applications are growing unprecedentedly with the advent and
increasing popularity of wireless services worldwide, which greatly increases the demands …

The explosive growth of mobile data traffic and the shortage of the available spectral
resources have created new challenges for future cellular networks. In particular, resource …

Requirements for 5G mobile networks includes a higher flexibility, scalability, cost
effectiveness and energy efficiency. Towards these goals, Software Defined Networking …

For satisfying rapidly increasing data rates at hotspots and enhancing coverage in buildings,
small cells, such as femtocells, picocells, and microcells, are deployed in LTE-A. Femtocells …