Energy efficiency in cellular networks is a growing concern for cellular operators to not only maintain profitability, but also to reduce the overall environment effects. This emerging trend …
F Al-Turjman, E Ever… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides an overview of the use of small cells (eg, femtocells) in the Internet of Things (IoT) environments. As a result of rapid increase in the number of mobile connected …
D Muirhead, MA Imran, K Arshad - IEEE access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small cell base stations (SBSs) and multiple antennas are seen as fundamental technologies in the emergence of the next generation [ie, 5th generation (5G)] of cellular …
Y Niu, C Gao, Y Li, L Su, D Jin… - IEEE Journal on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, there has been an increasing interest in deploying small cells of higher frequency bands underlying the conventional homogeneous …
Heterogeneous networks, consisting of macrocells overlaid with small cells (eg, femtocells, picocells, microcells) provide a fast, flexible, cost-efficient, and fine-tuned design and …
5G will have to support a multitude of new applications with a wide variety of requirements, including higher peak and user data rates, reduced latency, enhanced indoor coverage …
X Ge, J Yang, H Gharavi, Y Sun - IEEE communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of a large number of small cells poses new challenges to energy efficiency, which has often been ignored in 5G cellular networks. While massive MIMO will reduce the …
P Mogensen, K Pajukoski, E Tiirola… - 2014 IEEE 79th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-dense small cells are foreseen to play an essential role in the 5th generation (5G) of mobile radio access technology, which will be operating over different bands with respect to …
Optimizing the cellular network's cell locations is one of the most fundamental problems of network design. The general objective is to provide the desired QoS with the minimum …