Within the foreseeable future, the growing number of mobile devices, and their diversity, will
challenge the current network architecture. Furthermore, users will expect greater data rates …

In last couple of decades, cellular networks have revolutionized the way users access
communication networks but they required a huge effort to operators for the development of …

With the increasingly dense-deployed small cells, the heterogeneous ultradense network (H-
UDN) now faces new challenges. In order to fulfill user traffic demand and improve network …

Heterogeneous networks using a mix of macrocells and small cells are foreseen as one of
the solutions to meet the ever increasing mobile traffic demand. Nevertheless, a massive …

BACKGROUND Cellular technology has evolved over the past decade. For example, with
the evolution of Third Generation Mobile Sys-25 tems towards High-Speed Downlink Packet …

Deploying dense small cells is the key to providing high capacity, but raise the serious issue
of energy consumption and inter-cell interference. To understand the behaviors of ultra …

After about a decade of intense research, spurred by both economic and operational
considerations, and by environmental concerns, energy efficiency has now become a key …

Reducing the energy consumption of a wireless cellular network is an important and urgent
problem. This paper studies the effect of cell sizes on the energy consumed by the network …

Small cell networks offer a promising and viable approach to meeting the increasing
demand for high-data-rate wireless applications. With the expected increase in the number …

As the deployment and commercial operation of 4G systems are speeding up, technologists
worldwide have begun searching for next generation wireless solutions to meet the …