User association in 5G networks: A survey and an outlook

D Liu, L Wang, Y Chen, M Elkashlan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisioned to support the deluge of data traffic
with reduced energy consumption and improved quality of service (QoS) provision. To this …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the performance of futurewireless networks with software-defined networking

M Feng, S Mao, T Jiang - Frontiers of information technology & electronic …, 2016 - Springer
To provide ubiquitous Internet access under the explosive increase of applications and data
traffic, the current network architecture has become highly heterogeneous and complex …

5G centralized multi-cell scheduling for URLLC: Algorithms and system-level performance

A Karimi, KI Pedersen, NH Mahmood, J Steiner… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study centralized radio access network (C-RAN) with multi-cell scheduling algorithms to
overcome the challenges for supporting ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) …

BOOST: Base station on-off switching strategy for energy efficient massive MIMO HetNets

M Feng, S Mao, T Jiang - IEEE INFOCOM 2016-The 35th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimal base station (BS) ON-OFF switching and
user association in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) with massive MIMO, with the …

Joint frame design, resource allocation and user association for massive MIMO heterogeneous networks with wireless backhaul

M Feng, S Mao, T Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the problem of frame design, resource allocation, and user
association in a massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) heterogeneous network …

User association in dense mmwave networks as restless bandits

SK Singh, VS Borkar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the problem of user association, ie, determining which base station
(BS) a user should associate with, in a dense millimeter wave (mmWave) network. In our …

Approximation algorithms for online user association in multi-tier multi-cell mobile networks

WC Ao, K Psounis - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The constantly growing wireless bandwidth demand is pushing wireless networks to multi-
tier architectures consisting of a macrocell tier and a number of dense small cell deployment …

Interference management and user association for nested array-based massive MIMO HetNets

M Feng, S Mao - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The nested array, implemented by nonuniform antenna placement, is an effective approach
to achieve O (N 2) degrees of freedom (DOF) with an antenna array of N antennas. Such …

Coalition game based user association for mmWave mobile relay systems in rail traffic scenarios

C Chen, Y Niu, S Mao, X Zhang, Z Han… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rail transportation, especially, high-speed rails (HSR), is an important infrastructure for the
development of national economy and the promotion of passenger experience. Due to the …

Interference coordination and resource allocation planning with predicted average channel gains for HetNets

K Guo, T Liu, C Yang, Z Xiong - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future average channel gains are recently reported predictable within a minute-level
horizon for a mobile user. Predictive resource allocation for non-realtime service with future …