Abstract The Heterogeneous Network is widely used in the Fifth Generation wireless
network to solve the problem of increasing demand on wireless communication. Femtocell …

Ubiquitous mobile communication requires increased capacity and appropriate quality
guarantee for services. To meet these demands next-generation mobile network operators …

With the advent of femtocells in cellular networks, the inter-cell handover process will
become more complex, frequent and time-sensitive. The legacy handover procedures in 3G …

Wireless systems have the capability to serve users over broad geographic area without
using a costly network infrastructure. However, the main drawback of these systems …

In this study, an efficient handover algorithm based on the received signal strength (RSS)
prediction is presented for two‐tier macro–femtocell networks in which, because of the …

One of the most challenges of 4G network is to have a unified network of heterogeneous
wireless networks. To achieve seamless mobility in such a diverse environment, vertical …

Femtocell technology is envisioned to be widely deployed in subscribers' homes to provide
high data rate communications with quality of service. Dense deployment of femtocells will …

Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest nowadays, as a promising solution to
improve indoor coverage and system capacity. Due to the short transmit-receive distance …

A large number of small cells in the next-generation mobile networks is expected to be
deployed to satisfy 5G requirements. Mobility management is one of the important issues …

With the purpose of providing higher data rate and ultra-reliable and low-latency
communications for the users, employing the small cells in the upcoming Fifth-Generation …