With the increasing global communication demands and the development of Internet of
Things (IoT), extending the connectivity to rural and remote areas has become imperative for …

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of existing authentication and privacy-
preserving schemes for 4G and 5G cellular networks. We start by providing an overview of …

Driven by the emergence of new compute-intensive applications and the vision of the
Internet of Things (IoT), it is foreseen that the emerging 5G network will face an …

Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm, which pushes cloud computing
capabilities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge. However, with the sinking …

Merging mobile edge computing (MEC) functionality with the dense deployment of base
stations (BSs) provides enormous benefits such as a real proximity, low latency access to …

With the rapid increase in the number of mobile users, wireless access technologies are
evolving to provide mobile users with high data rates and support new applications that …

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) enhances the capacities and features of mobile devices by
offloading computation-intensive tasks over wireless networks to edge servers. One …

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

Long term evolution (LTE) carrier aggregation with 5 GHz unlicensed national informational
infrastructure band has been pointed out by the industry as a good solution to handle the …

This paper provides an overview of the use of small cells (eg, femtocells) in the Internet of
Things (IoT) environments. As a result of rapid increase in the number of mobile connected …