Energy Efficiency and Interoperability through O-RAN Rapid Transition Protocol (ORTP)

K Ashfaq, GA Safdar - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Mobile network traffic is increasing accompanied by increased energy consumption.
Traditional Radio Access Networks (RANs) have been used for decades as the foundation …

Energy efficiency and superlative TTT for equitable RLF and ping pong in LTE networks

K Kanwal, GA Safdar - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2018 - Springer
Data hungry users engage radio resources over long periods of time thus resulting into
higher energy consumption by Base Stations (BSs). Mobile operators' operational …

[HTML][HTML] UE admittance and contention free resource allocation for interference mitigation in HetNet cognitive femtocells

GA Safdar - e-Prime-Advances in Electrical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Femtocells are designed to co-exist alongside macrocells providing higher spectrum
efficiency, spatial frequency reuse, to name a few. However, when deployed in the two-tier …

Improved Spectral Efficiency and Connectivity in RSMA based 5G V2X Systems

H Chihi, GA Safdar, M Bahja - EAI Endorsed Transactions on …, 2022 - publications.eai.eu
Vehicle to everything (V2X) faces several challenges including high data rate, low latency
and stable connectivity requirements. Due to increased number of connected vehicles …

Call blocking and outage probability in energy‐efficient LTE networks

K Kanwal, GA Safdar… - Transactions on Emerging …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile operators are continuously expanding network infrastructure through the deployment
of additional base stations to satisfy ever growing user demands. In parallel, number of …