A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks: Applications, challenges, and open problems

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as
drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility …

Small cells in the forthcoming 5G/IoT: Traffic modelling and deployment overview

F Al-Turjman, E Ever… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides an overview of the use of small cells (eg, femtocells) in the Internet of
Things (IoT) environments. As a result of rapid increase in the number of mobile connected …

Cooperative interference mitigation and handover management for heterogeneous cloud small cell networks

H Zhang, C Jiang, J Cheng… - IEEE Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous small cell networks have attracted much attention for satisfying users'
explosive data traffic requirements. The heterogeneous cloud small cell network (HCSNet) …

Mobility management for femtocells in LTE-advanced: Key aspects and survey of handover decision algorithms

D Xenakis, N Passas, L Merakos… - … surveys & tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Handover management in 5G and beyond: A topology aware skipping approach

R Arshad, H ElSawy, S Sorour, TY Al-Naffouri… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network densification is foreseen as a potential solution to fulfill the 5G spectral efficiency
requirements. The spectral efficiency is improved by shrinking base stations'(BSs) footprints …

Handover management of drones in future mobile networks: 6G technologies

J Angjo, I Shayea, M Ergen, H Mohamad… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones will be a significant part of future mobile communication networks, serving as mobile
users or acting as mobile base stations at sky. Although they will provide several solutions …

Velocity-aware handover management in two-tier cellular networks

R Arshad, H ElSawy, S Sorour… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While network densification is considered an important solution to cater the ever-increasing
capacity demand, its effect on the handover (HO) rate is overlooked. In dense 5G networks …

A survey of handover management in LTE-based multi-tier femtocell networks: Requirements, challenges and solutions

G Gódor, Z Jakó, Á Knapp, S Imre - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous mobile communication requires increased capacity and appropriate quality
guarantee for services. To meet these demands next-generation mobile network operators …

A robust self-optimization algorithm based on idiosyncratic adaptation of handover parameters for mobility management in LTE-A heterogeneous networks

T Al Achhab, F Abboud, A Assalem - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility robustness optimization (MRO) is a fundamental issue regarding self-optimization
network (SON). In long-term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), handover (HO) optimization in …

Analyzing x2 handover in lte/lte-a

K Alexandris, N Nikaein, R Knopp… - 2016 14th international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Handover procedure in LTE/LTE-A has been radically evolved when compared to the
previous 3GPP standards. In particular, X2 handover is introduced to allow neighboring …