Energy consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in general and
wireless mobile networks in particular is rapidly increasing with the exponential growth of …

Fourth generation networks and beyond (5G) have recently emerged to satisfy the
increasing demand for high data bit rates. Cost-effective means such as small cells have …

The coverage area and the capacity of existing cellular network systems are not sufficient to
meet the growing demand of high data rate for wireless communications. Heterogeneous …

With the development of the network scale, energy saving has become an important issue in
mobile communication network This paper introduces an energy saving strategy for LTE …

In the last few years, femtocells have gained a great deal of interest as an emerging wireless
and mobile access technology to improve indoor coverage and network capacity. In such an …

Future cellular networks as envisaged by mobile operators, are expected to consist of macro
cells overlaid with small nodes in dense architectures. These multi-tier deployments pose …

Two important challenges facing 5G are energy efficiency and mobile users' mobility in
heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets). One of the important techniques for improving …

The deployment of small cells in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) raises new challenges
in relation to the Handover process and the mobility management. In fact, the performance of …

Heterogeneous network (HetNet) deploying a number of small cells in a macro cell improves
network capacity as well as data rate at hot spots and cell edges. The mobility management …

In this work we propose a novel handover (HO) algorithm, that considers system
performance from both user and network perspective, in the context of heterogeneous …