The deployment of drone small cells has emerged as a promising solution to agile
provisioning of Internet backbone access for Internet of Things devices, and many other …

The 5G mobile network is embracing new technologies to keep providing network
subscribers with a high Quality of Service (QoS). However, this has become increasingly …

Sleep mode control is essential to the energy efficiency of small cell networks. However,
frequently switching on/off small cell base stations (SBSs) may cause the degradation to the …

Small cell access points (SAPs) can offload macrocell traffic, improve indoor coverage and
cell-edge user performance, and boost network capacity. In this paper, we investigate the …

The energy consumption and applications' execution latency of mobile devices (MDs) can
be improved by migrating application tasks to a nearby edge device. In this paper, we …

As the rise of the portable devices, people usually access the social media such as Twitter
and Facebook through wireless networks. Therefore, data transmission rates significant …

Through the advanced coordination and orchestration realised within the wider SESAME
project concept, a new architecture has been defined and proposed, aiming to attend …

This paper studies carrier aggregation between multiple mobile network operators (MNOs),
referred to as interoperator carrier aggregation (IO-CA). In IO-CA, each MNO can transmit on …

In order to meet the growing mobile data demand, future wireless networks will be equipped
with a multitude of access points (APs). Besides the important implications for the energy …

With the rapid development in wireless communication technologies, interference has
become a main impediment to network performance, making interference management (IM) …