Green communication has been a hot issue with the energy consumption of ICT industry
continuously growing. To achieve the goal of energy saving, base station sleep schemes are …

In this paper, the role of handover parameters in improving the energy efficiency of cellular
networks is analyzed, and the negative effects of handover failure (HOF) and ping-pong (PP) …

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) have been considered as a promising technique for
improving spectral efficiency, but the energy efficiency influenced by the fluctuation of user …

Femtocell deployment will play a key role for the wide adoption of LTE-Advanced, as it
brings the access network closer to the end user in a cost-effective manner. This disruptive …

Handover Parameter Optimization (HPO) and Load Balancing (LB) are two Self-
Organization network (SON) aspects which aim at improving LTE system handover …

The effect of smaller cells being placed in a heterogeneous network can improve the way
energy is spent in a system. Handoff strategies, bandwidth allocation and path loss …

Energy efficiency of wireless networks is becoming more and more important because of the
steadily rising energy cost and environmental concerns. In a real network with unequal traffic …

A great problem for LTE networks employed large number of femtocells using the self
optimization and configuration capabilities is to reduce the operational efforts. The handover …

Femtocells are currently being deployed in the present generation of cellular networks
because of their ability to provide increased data rate at home and offices. This development …

Nowadays, energy saving has become a hot topic and information and communication
technology has become a major power consumer. In long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) …