Currently, cellular operators are struggling to relieve congestion on their networks in the face
of rapidly growing mobile data traffic. While deploying an increasing number of base stations …

Mobile network operators are struggling to handle the rapidly increasing amounts of data
traffic on their networks. As a result, 3GPP is currently investigating possible scenarios for …

With the evolution of high-performance multi-radio smartphones, Device-to-Device (D2D)
communications became an attractive solution for enhancing the performance of cellular …

Analysts predict explosive growth in traffic demand on mobile broadband systems over the
coming years due to the popularity of streaming video, gaming, and other social media …

Downloading remote files (eg, pictures, videos) from online social networks via smart user
equipments (UEs)(eg, smartphones, tablets) is becoming popular. Friends who are nearby …

The increasing number of mobile users has given impetus to the demand for high data rate
proximity services. The fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems promise to improve the …

Cellular networks operators is facing one great challenge on how to manage the
exponential data traffic increase. Mobile data offloading can be a low-cost and efficient way …

In this article, we look into how the LTE network can efficiently evolve to cater for new data
services by utilizing direct communications between mobile devices and extending the direct …

While operators have finally started to deploy fourth generation broadband technology,
many believe it will still be insufficient to meet the anticipated demand in mobile traffic over …

D2D communications have been an active topic for the last years, and appeared many times
under different names: Ad-hoc and mesh networking, Cooperative communications (client) …