A deployment of femtocells to mobile wireless networks can increase a throughput of indoor
as well as outdoor users. On the other hand, it introduces several problems such as serious …

The challenge of removing redundant handover (HO) has gained more importance after the
existence and deployment of femtocell in the network. By nature, the existence of femtocell …

The exponential increase in mobile device users and high-bandwidth applications has
pushed the current wireless networks to their capacity. To handle this spectacular growth …

Abstract Current Wireless Broadband Networks (WBN) are facing several limitations and
considerations, such as poor indoor coverage, explosive growth in data usage, and massive …

Macrocell and small cell deployments and self-organizing network (SON) techniques work
together to increase indoor cellular network capacity and ensure better quality of service …

Femtocells are deployed to provide good indoor coverage and to offload data traffic from
macrocell networks. Unnecessary handoffs (HOs), ping-pong effects, and cell utilization are …

Hierarchical macro/femto-cell networks are considered a promising technology to increase
overall network coverage and bandwidth at a relatively low cost. In these emerging …

Handover decision is one of the technical challenges in the heterogeneous network
(HetNet). Current researches on this topic concentrate mainly on the two-tier networks. In …

In the past few years, the demand for data traffic has increased explosively, in order to meet
such a demand in traffic volume, small cell networks have been introduced. With the wide …

In the ultra-dense network (UDN), terminals may be exposed to more frequent handover
than ever due to smaller cell radius. Employing the handover protocol of the received signal …