With the enormous increase in application demands and user's data rate, high Quality of
Service (QoS) has attracted significant attention from the mobile operators and academia in …

The increasing usage of smart devices and the penetration of mobile phones in the low-end
markets have outpaced the average growth of this wireless mobile communications industry …

Public safety organizations increasingly rely on wireless technology for their mission critical
communication during disaster response operations. In such situations, a communication …

Lack of network availability or limited access to communication services are among the
challenges that public safety officials and first responders could face during disasters …

A radio resource scheduler at a first base station may be configured to: identify radio
frequency resources in use by the first base station, identify radio frequency resources to be …

This paper proposes a distributed coordination framework with opportunistic scheduling
among the multiple users as opposed to the existing works on the multi-cell cooperative …

With the extensive proliferation of mobile applications and smartphones, there is an
increasing trend of technical adoption of 3G (third generation). But, with the exponential …

Femtocells are the rising new technology aiming to enhance the indoor coverage for Long
Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced networks. However, the interference between the …

In this chapter, we provide a brief yet comprehensive overview of current Long Term
Evolution (LTE) systems and beyond. We begin presenting the baseline technology and the …

The demand of high data rate services for mobile user increases sharply nowadays. It is
difficult for Long Term Evolution (LTE) to cope up with this current and future requirement …