Recently, heterogeneous networks with small cells have been widely used to increase the
capacity of mobile systems. In such environments, accurate estimation of the mean cell …

Recently, femtocells are widely deployed to offload the traffic from the macrocell. Since
conventional location management schemes of femto/macrocell networks do not consider …

Internet of Things (IoT) applications are connecting several Mobile Stations (MSs) to form the
Mobile Communication Network (MCN). MSs are moving through macrocell and picocell …

Frequent location updates of individual Internet of Things (IoT) devices can cause several
problems (eg, signaling overhead in networks and energy depletion of IoT devices) in …

ABSTRACT A feasible solution to wireless spectrum scarcity is the deployment of femtocells
along with already existing or new macrocells. This hybrid architecture not only helps to …

Mobility management is one of the basic pillars of any mobile network. Thanks to this
management task, mobile networks are able to track the subscribers' movement along the …

We consider the problem of resource block (RB) allocation in the integrated pico/macrocell
Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network. It is assumed that the network is controlled …

In LTE networks, tracking areas (TAs) design affects the signaling cost of user equipments
(UEs) during mobility. Indeed, when the latter are called, the mobility management entity …

In LTE, tracking Areas (TAs) are used to group cells where each cell is assigned to one TA
and each user equipment (UE) registers with one TA. A TA may be connected to more than …

In future small cell networks, tracking areas (TAs) that are defined for location management
will be updated frequently to cope with the massive signalling overhead. In this study, a TA …