Next-generation wireless networks are expected to be highly heterogeneous, multilayered,
with embedded intelligence at both the core and edge of the network. In such a context …

The inevitable next era of smart living requires unprecedented advances in enabling
technologies. The building blocks of this era are devices such as sensors, actuators, and …

In the wireless Internet of Things (IoT) networks with resource-constrained devices, fog
computing has been introduced to deal with the computation-intensive applications at the …

Proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, a coded caching scheme has been verified to
alleviate the load of networks efficiently. Recently, a new technique called placement …

Deploying a large number of distributed access points (AP) s to serve a smaller number of
users is one of the promising network architectures for future wireless communication …

Small-cell aided ultra-dense networks (UDNs) constitute an efficient solution to the ever-
increasing thirst for more data. Thanks to the vast untapped high-frequency spectrum of …

The user-centric cooperative transmission provides a compelling way to alleviate frequent
handovers caused by an ever-increasing number of randomly deployed base stations (BSs) …

In this paper, we investigate the uplink coverage and ergodic capacity of massive Machine-
Type Communication (mMTC) considering an Ultra-Dense Network (UDN) environment. In …

In order to reduce the handover cost due to network densification, this letter proposes an
anchor-based multi-connectivity (MC) architecture and derives compact expressions of …

The recent advances and unprecedented ubiquity of computation-intensive applications
such as virtual reality and mobile augmented reality force new approaches to handle the …