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 …

Over the past few years, the next generation of vehicular networks is envisioned to play an
essential part in autonomous driving, traffic management, and infotainment applications. The …

Ensuring reliable and stable communication during the movements of mobile users is one of
the key issues in mobile networks. In the recent years, several studies have been conducted …

Abstract The Heterogeneous Network is widely used in the Fifth Generation wireless
network to solve the problem of increasing demand on wireless communication. Femtocell …

For satisfying rapidly increasing data rates at hotspots and enhancing coverage in buildings,
small cells, such as femtocells, picocells, and microcells, are deployed in LTE-A. Femtocells …

Mobile multimedia services are gaining great momentum among subscribers of mobile
networks (MNs). An understanding of the network traffic behavior is essential in the evolution …

Next generation cellular systems are expected to entail a wide variety of wireless coverage
zones, with cells of different sizes and capacities that can overlap in space and share the …

Ubiquitous mobile communication requires increased capacity and appropriate quality
guarantee for services. To meet these demands next-generation mobile network operators …

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) …

In this paper, we present an open source simulation model for the ns-3 simulator that allows
the simulation of LTE handover scenarios, to support the design and evaluation of handover …