WiFi is increasingly used by carriers for opportunistically offloading the cellular network
infrastructure or even for increasing their revenue through WiFi-only plans and WiFi on …

This paper tackles the WiFi hotspot deployment problem in a metropolitan area by
leveraging mobile users' context and content, ie, their trajectories, scenario interactions, and …

Base stations equipped with resources to harvest renewable energy are not only
environment-friendly but can also reduce the grid energy consumed, thus bringing cost …

In this paper, we consider cellular networks powered by the smart grid (SG) and by local
renewable energy (RE) sources. While this configuration promises energy savings, usage of …

The energy consumption of mobile network infrastructures has been witnessed to rise
significantly in recent years due to the massive growth of mobile traffic triggered by the …

Generally, it has been taken for granted that green technology provides clean and cheap
energy, but often without consideration of the costs. In fact, there are many tradeoffs …

WLAN becomes a necessary facility for exible Internet provisioning in enterprise networks.
Usually this connection provisioning is designed to handle a peak load with high density of …

Mobile network connectivity is currently mainly provided by wide area technologies utilizing
outdoor-located base stations. However, the provisioning of services consuming more and …

WiFi data offloading provides a promising auxiliary to alleviate network congestion by
diverting traffic from the cellular infrastructure onto WiFi access points (APs). Despite the …

Mobile networks have been experiencing an explosive revolution in the recent decade over
numerous radio access technologies such as GSM, LTE-Advanced, Wi-Fi, LiFi, etc., which …