Symbol-level and multicast precoding for multiuser multiantenna downlink: A state-of-the-art, classification, and challenges

M Alodeh, D Spano, A Kalantari… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precoding has been conventionally considered as an effective means of mitigating or
exploiting the interference in the multiantenna downlink channel, where multiple users are …

Cluster frameworks for efficient scheduling and resource allocation in data center networks: A survey

K Wang, Q Zhou, S Guo, J Luo - IEEE Communications Surveys …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers are widely used for big data analytics, which often involve data-parallel jobs,
including query and web service. Meanwhile, cluster frameworks are rapidly developed for …

Mobility prediction: A survey on state-of-the-art schemes and future applications

H Zhang, L Dai - IEEE access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, mobility has gathered tremendous interest as the users' desire for consecutive
connections and better quality of service has increased. An accurate prediction of user …

Multi-user visible light communications: State-of-the-art and future directions

S Al-Ahmadi, O Maraqa, M Uysal, SM Sait - Ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visible light communications (VLC) builds upon the dual use of existing lighting
infrastructure for wireless data transmission. VLC has recently gained interest as cost …

Low-latency C-RAN: An next-generation wireless approach

H Ren, N Liu, C Pan, M Elkashlan… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) constitutes a promising architecture for next-
generation systems. Beneficial centralized signal processing techniques can be realized …

Energy-efficient coordinated multipoint scheduling in green cloud radio access network

D Zeng, J Zhang, L Gu, S Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fast development of mobile computing has raised ever-increasing diverse
communication needs in wireless networks. To catch up with such needs, cloud radio …

User specific cell clustering to improve mobility robustness in 5G ultra-dense cellular networks

M Joud, M García-Lozano, S Ruiz - 2018 14th Annual …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the key challenges in very dense cellular network deployments is keeping mobility
robustness. Connection dropping and throughput degradation appear significantly when …

Affinity-based user clustering for efficient edge caching in content-centric cellular networks

AV Ribeiro, LN Sampaio… - 2018 IEEE Symposium on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network densification by small cell networks has become the main alternative for mobile
network operators to deal with an ever-increasing traffic growth. In this context, Named Data …

Practical feasibility, scalability and effectiveness of coordinated scheduling algorithms in cellular networks towards 5G

G Nardini, G Stea, A Virdis, A Frangioni, L Galli… - Journal of Network and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Coordinated Scheduling (CS) is used to mitigate inter-cell interference in present (4G) and
future (5G) cellular networks. We show that coordination of a cluster of nodes can be …

Enabling Key Technologies and Emerging Research Challenges Ahead of 5G Networks: An Extensive Survey

C Amali, B Ramachandran - JOIV: International Journal on Informatics …, 2018 - joiv.org
The evolution towards 5G networks is expected to slake the growing thirst of internet traffic
with improved Quality of Service (QoS) and reduced energy consumption and cost. The …