User scheduling and resource allocation in HetNets with hybrid energy supply: An actor-critic reinforcement learning approach

Y Wei, FR Yu, M Song, Z Han - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Densely deployment of various small-cell base stations in cellular networks to increase
capacity will lead to heterogeneous networks (HetNets), and meanwhile, embedding the …

Applications of economic and pricing models for wireless network security: A survey

NC Luong, DT Hoang, P Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on applications of economic and
pricing theory to security issues in wireless networks. Unlike wireline networks, the …

The next generation vehicular networks: A content-centric framework

Z Su, Y Hui, Q Yang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the expanding scale of vehicles and the new demands of multimedia services,
current vehicular networks face challenges to increase capacity, support mobility, and …

Joint uplink base station association and power control for small-cell networks with non-orthogonal multiple access

LP Qian, Y Wu, H Zhou, X Shen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with successive interference cancellation
(SIC) can achieve superior spectral-efficiency and energy-efficiency, the concept of SCN …

Machine-to-machine communication and research challenges: A survey

M Zhao, A Kumar, T Ristaniemi, PHJ Chong - Wireless Personal …, 2017 - Springer
In recent years, with the proliferation of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications into
industries, M2M communications has attracted researchers in this prominent field of …

Software defined networking enabled wireless network virtualization: Challenges and solutions

N Zhang, P Yang, S Zhang, D Chen, W Zhuang… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next generation (5G) wireless networks are expected to support massive data and
accommodate a wide range of services/use cases with distinct requirements in a cost …

Energy-efficient stable matching for resource allocation in energy harvesting-based device-to-device communications

Z Zhou, C Gao, C Xu, T Chen, D Zhang… - IEEE access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive growth of mobile date traffic and ubiquitous mobile services cause an high
energy consumption in mobile devices with limited energy supplies, which has become a …

Catalyzing cloud-fog interoperation in 5G wireless networks: An SDN approach

P Yang, N Zhang, Y Bi, L Yu, XS Shen - IEEE Network, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing storage and compute stacks in cloud data centers are expected to
accommodate the majority of Internet traffic in the future. However, as the number of mobile …

QoE driven decentralized spectrum sharing in 5G networks: Potential game approach

N Zhang, S Zhang, J Zheng, X Fang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies spectrum sharing for providing better quality of experience in 5G
networks, which are characterized by multidimensional heterogeneity in terms of spectrum …

Towards the fulfillment of 5G network requirements: technologies and challenges

A Alnoman, A Anpalagan - Telecommunication Systems, 2017 - Springer
Future 5G networks are expected to have the capabilities of providing extremely high data
rates, seamless coverage, massive number of connected devices, low latency, etc., in order …