Small cells in the forthcoming 5G/IoT: Traffic modelling and deployment overview

F Al-Turjman, E Ever… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Mobility management for femtocells in LTE-advanced: Key aspects and survey of handover decision algorithms

D Xenakis, N Passas, L Merakos… - … surveys & tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

A survey on femtocell handover management in dense heterogeneous 5G networks

R Ahmad, EA Sundararajan, A Khalifeh - Telecommunication Systems, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Heterogeneous Network is widely used in the Fifth Generation wireless
network to solve the problem of increasing demand on wireless communication. Femtocell …

Multi-criteria handover using modified weighted TOPSIS methods for heterogeneous networks

M Alhabo, L Zhang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-dense small cell deployment in future 5G networks is a promising solution to the ever
increasing demand of capacity and coverage. However, this deployment can lead to severe …

A new SDN-handover framework for QoS in heterogeneous wireless networks

T Abu-Ain, R Ahmad, R Wazirali, W Abu-Ain - Arabian Journal for Science …, 2023 - Springer
Mobility management for heterogeneous networks (HetNets) remains one of the most
important topics of modern research due to the joining of numerous user equipment (UE) …

A robust self-optimization algorithm based on idiosyncratic adaptation of handover parameters for mobility management in LTE-A heterogeneous networks

T Al Achhab, F Abboud, A Assalem - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility robustness optimization (MRO) is a fundamental issue regarding self-optimization
network (SON). In long-term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), handover (HO) optimization in …

5G MEC computation handoff for mobile augmented reality

P Zhou, S Fu, B Finley, X Li, S Tarkoma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The combination of 5G and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) can significantly reduce
application delay by lowering transmission delay and bringing computational capabilities …

Mobility-aware femtocaching algorithm in D2D networks based on handover

Z HajiAkhondi-Meybodi, J Abouei… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent developments and advancements in wireless networks have brought about new
challenges including the backhaul bottleneck and content download latency. The paper …

Adaptive handover algorithm in heterogeneous femtocellular networks based on received signal strength and signal‐to‐interference‐plus‐noise ratio prediction

H Kalbkhani, S Yousefi, MG Shayesteh - IET Communications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, an efficient handover algorithm based on the received signal strength (RSS)
prediction is presented for two‐tier macro–femtocell networks in which, because of the …

An optimized seamless dual-link handover scheme for high-speed rail

X Yu, Y Luo, X Chen - IEEE transactions on vehicular …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In high-speed rail (HSR) with Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, the wireless
communication quality of service (QoS) is enormously degraded because of the unstable …