While the growth of mobile applications brings enjoyment to daily life, it also imposes more
complicated traffic situations on wireless networks. A complete understanding of the impact …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …