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 …

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 …

For the past years, the analysts have been predicting a tremendous and continuous
increase in mobile traffic, causing much of industry and academia to seek out any and all …

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 …

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 …

An unprecedented increase in the mobile data traffic volume has been recently reported due
to the extensive use of smartphones, tablets and laptops. Moreover, predictions say that this …

Traffic offloading and resource sharing are two common methods for delivering cellular data
traffic over unlicensed bands. In this paper, we first develop a hybrid method to take full …

Mobile data traffic has been experiencing a phenomenal rise in the past decade. This ever-
increasing data traffic puts significant pressure on the infrastructure of state-of-the-art cellular …

The next-generation mobile communication system [fifth-generation (5G)] needs to address
the challenges stemming from the performance requirements in diverse technical scenarios …

In a conventional cellular system, devices are not allowed to directly communicate with each
other in the licensed cellular bandwidth and all communications take place through the base …