Cellular networks are in a major transition from a carefully planned set of large tower-
mounted base-stations (BSs) to an irregular deployment of heterogeneous infrastructure …

To meet massive wireless traffic demand in the future fifth generation (5G) cellular networks,
small-cell networks are emerging as an attractive solution for 5G network deployments. The …

In this paper, we present a new and significant theoretical discovery. If the absolute height
difference between base station (BS) antenna and user equipment (UE) antenna is larger …

Ultra-dense multi-tier cellular networks have recently drawn the attention of researchers due
to their potential efficiency in dealing with high-data rate demands in upcoming 5G cellular …

Traditional macrocell networks are experiencing an upsurge of data traffic, and small-cells
are deployed to help offload the traffic from macrocells. Given the massive deployment of …

Small cell networks (SCNs) are envisioned to embrace dynamic time division duplexing
(TDD) in order to tailor downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) subframe resources to quick variations and …

Recently, to address the astonishing capacity requirement of 5G, researchers are
investigating the possibility of combining different technologies with ultra-dense networks …

The dense deployment of low-power small-cell base stations (SBSs) can complement
existing macro base stations (MBSs) to address the 1000× mobile data challenge …

To meet the ever-growing traffic demand and address the cell capacity shortage problem,
associating end users to various tiers of cells in a multitier cellular network appears to be a …

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNets) are one of the key enabling technologies to
improve performance gain of future cellular networks. Stochastic geometry is considered a …