Increase in system capacity and data rates can be achieved efficiently in a wireless system
by getting the transmitter and receiver closer to each other. Femtocells deployed in the …

In this paper, the combined problem of power company selection and demand response
management (DRM) in a smart grid network consisting of multiple power companies and …

Mobile-broadband traffic has experienced a large increase over the past few years.
Femtocells are envisioned to cope with such a demand of capacity in indoor environments …

Sensors and sensor networks are the future of fully automated industry solutions. With more
capability and complex machinery, the requirements for sensing in larger factories are …

Femtocells have been suggested as a promising solution for the provision of indoor
coverage and capacity. This article investigates the problem of re-distributing traffic demand …

With the dense deployment of small cells in the next generation of mobile networks, the
users from different tiers suffer from high downlink interferences. In this paper, we propose a …

Being one of core characteristics for 5G cellular networks, ultra‐dense small cell network is
an effective approach to reuse the spectrum and achieve high data rate transmission in the …

Macrocells may suffer serious uplink interference introduced by the deployment of co-
channel femtocells. In this paper, an interference-aware pricing-based resource allocation …

Femtocells represent a novel configuration for existing cellular communication, contributing
towards the improvement of coverage and throughput. The dense deployment of these …

The deployment of underlay small base stations (SBSs) is expected to significantly boost the
spectrum efficiency and the coverage of next-generation cellular networks. However, the …