The rapidly increasing number of mobile devices, voluminous data, and higher data rate are
pushing to rethink the current generation of the cellular mobile communication. The next or …

Cognitive radio enabled small cell network is an emerging technology to address the
exponential increase of mobile traffic demand in next generation mobile communications …

The Senior Living Lab (SLL) is a transdisciplinary research platform created by four
Universities that aims at promoting ageing well at home through the co-creation of …

A smart city is an environment where a pervasive, multi-service network is employed to
provide citizens improved living conditions as well as better public safety and security …

The cognitive femtocell network (CFN) integrated with cognitive-radio-enabled technology
has emerged as one of the promising solutions to improve wireless broadband coverage in …

We study the energy efficiency issue in 5G communications scenarios, where cognitive
femtocells coexist with picocells operating at the same frequency bands. Optimal energy …

Small cell (SC) base stations with cognitive capabilities are seen as an efficient way to cope
with interference between the SC base stations and macrocell base stations (MBSs) …

The deployment of low-power nodes such as femtocells within the macrocell's coverage
area is one of the main features of future 5G networks. However, challenges arise in the …

In this letter, cognitive two-tier femtocell networks are considered, where each femtocell
transmits over subchannels that are considered idle by spectrum sensing. Since femtocells …

Combining femtocell networks and cognitive radio (CR) technology is one of the most
promising solutions to offload emerging traffic from cellular networks. Mobility management …