Multicasting in wireless access networks is a functionality that, by leveraging group
communications, turns out to be essential for reducing the amount of resources needed to …

Resource management in emerging dense heterogeneous network environments
(DenseNets) is a challenging issue. The employment of multicast transmissions in this …

The support of multicast communications in the fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system
poses unique challenges to system designers. Particularly, the highly directional antennas …

Multicasting is becoming more and more important in the Internet of Things (IoT) and
wearable applications (eg, high definition video streaming, virtual reality gaming, public …

The latest technological developments have fueled revolutionary changes and
improvements in wireless communication systems. Among them, mmWave spectrum …

Using smartphones, tablets, and other portable/handheld devices, we have become more
reliant on the video streaming services for entertainment and remote work. Mobile data traffic …

Multicast transmission is one of the key enablers toward a more spectral-and energy-
efficient distribution of multimedia content in current and envisaged cellular networks. In …

Previous research on SDN multicast traffic engineering mainly focused on intra-domain
optimization. However, the main traffic on the Internet is inter-domain, and the selection of …

The recent growth in both number of high specification mobile devices and network
multimedia data demand, has made difficult supporting access to the multimedia content at …

The emerging 5G adopts OFDM modulation and deploys small-cell amplify and forward (AF)
relays for in-cell capacity enhancement and energy efficiency. However, hybrid delivery …