The exponential traffic growth, demand for high speed wireless data communications, as
well as incessant deployment of innovative wireless technologies, services, and …

The fifth generation (5G) technology improves the user experience and creates new
possibilities for a variety of applications, including transportation, device-to-device …

Heterogeneous cellular networks can offload the mobile traffic and reduce the deployment
costs, which have been considered to be a promising technique in the next-generation …

In this paper, we propose a framework for cross-layer optimization to ensure ultra-high
reliability and ultra-low latency in radio access networks, where both transmission delay and …

Traditional architectures of cellular networks are facing tremendous challenges due to
unprecedented increase in mobile data traffic, limited spectrum availability and high power …

Mobile networking to achieve the ultra-low latency goal of 1 msec enables massive
operation of autonomous vehicles and other intelligent mobile machines, and emerges as …

To guarantee the ubiquitous and fully autonomous Internet connections in our daily life, the
new technical challenges of mobile communications lie on the efficient utilization of resource …

Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization stands as a pivotal concept in the realm of 5G
networks and beyond. It emerges as a viable solution not only to address energy cost …

The explosive data traffic demand in the context of the 5G revolution has stressed the need
for network capacity increase. As the network densification has almost reached its limits …

We propose a novel random access (RA) scheme with the quality of service (QoS)
guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. We consider a slotted …