Ultra-dense networks (UDNs) provide an effective solution to accommodate the explosively
growing data traffic of multimedia services and real-time applications. However, the …

The unprecedented increase in the demand for mobile data, fuelled by new emerging
applications and use-cases such as high-definition video streaming and heightened online …

User-centric (UC) clustering, an innovative design principle for ultradense networks (UDNs),
supports dynamically fluctuating adaptive network topologies. In this article, we introduce the …

Edge-computing-enhanced Internet of Vehicles (EC-IoV) enables ubiquitous data
processing and content sharing among vehicles and terrestrial edge computing (TEC) …

For the past 40 years, the cellular industry has been relying on static radio access
deployments with gross over-provisioning. However, to meet the exponentially growing …

Ultra-dense networking (UDN) is a promising technology to improve the network capacity in
the next-generation mobile communication system. The virtualization paradigm is tightly …

Today's cellular core, which connects the radio access network to the Internet, relies on fixed
hardware appliances placed at a few dedicated locations and uses relatively static routing …

It is commonly agreed that the ultra dense network (UDN) will be a key technology to face
extremely dense traffic and high-speed data rate in the fifth-generation (5G) network …

The extreme traffic load that future wireless networks are expected to accommodate requires
a rethinking of the system design. The initial estimations indicate that, unlike the evolutionary …

To meet the surging demand of increasing mobile Internet traffic from diverse applications
while maintaining moderate energy cost, the radio access network of cellular systems needs …