It is commonly agreed that the ultra dense network (UDN) will be a key technology to face
extremely dense traffic and high-speed data rate in the fifth-generation (5G) network …

Mobility management has always been a challenging and important issue for the next‐
generation all‐IP mobile networks. Seamless mobility is one of the requirements to provide …

Future wireless network will address the explosive increase demand of high-data-rate video
services as well as massive-access machine type communication (MTC) requests, so that …

Network densification with Small Cells (SCs) has emerged as a key technique to increase
the 5G network capacity. However, in a densified network, fast mobile nodes will experience …

With the network densification, frequent handovers may degrade mobility reliability, cause
heavy signaling load thus blocking the improvement of network capacity. This paper aims at …

Ultra-dense network deployment is a key technology for potentially achieving the capacity
target of next-generation wireless communication systems. However, such a deployment …

Ultra-densification is a key approach aimed at satisfying high data traffic in next-generation
5G networks. However, the high number of small cell eNB deployments in such ultra-dense …

The exponential rise in mobile traffic originating from mobile devices highlights the need for
making mobility management in future networks even more efficient and seamless than ever …

5G Network Slicing and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are two strategies that contribute in
5G accelerated deployment. As a result of using a variety of radio access technologies …

In this letter, we propose new handoff schemes to reduce the interruption time that occurs
during re-connection of an arriving mobile user moving from macrocell to small cell or from …