CoMP transmission and reception have been considered in cellular networks for enabling
larger coverage, improved rates, and interference mitigation. To harness the gains of …

Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) concepts such as multi-cell joint detection and
transmission, promising large improvements in spectral efficiency and fairness, appears to …

To meet ever-growing mobile data traffic, network spatial densification with various low-
power nodes in addition to the conventional high-power macro base stations, also known as …

Ultradense networks have been identified as a promising technology to accomplish
objectives of the fifth-generation wireless networks. However, the severe mutual interference …

In this paper, we propose a load-aware and QoS-aware user association strategy that jointly
considers the load of each BS and user's achievable rate instead of only utilizing the latter …

This paper addresses the cell association problem in the downlink of a multi-tier
heterogeneous network (HetNet), where base stations (BSs) have finite number of resource …

Multi-cell cooperative processing (MCP) has recently attracted a lot of attention because of
its potential for co-channel interference (CCI) mitigation and spectral efficiency increase …

In millimeter wave (mmW) dense femto-networks, major challenges are overcoming the
performance loss imposed by the channel and managing the co-channel interference. The …

Ultra-dense networks (UDNs) constitute one of the most promising techniques for supporting
the 5G mobile system. By deploying more small cells in a fixed area, the average distance …

In heterogeneous networks, a macro cell can cause excessive interference to users in co-
channel pico cells. In Release 10 of 3GPP's LTE system, enhanced Inter-Cell Interference …