The increasing number of mobile users has given impetus to the demand for high data rate
proximity services. The fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems promise to improve the …

With the widespread adoption of various mobile applications, the amount of traffic in wireless
networks is growing at an exponential rate, which exerts a great burden on mobile core …

A heterogenous network with base stations (BSs), small base stations (SBSs), and users
distributed according to independent Poisson point processes is considered. SBS nodes are …

The proliferation of heterogeneous devices connected through large-scale networks is a
clear sign that the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) is getting closer to becoming a reality …

This paper develops a comprehensive analytical framework with foundations in stochastic
geometry to characterize the performance of cluster-centric content placement in a cache …

It is envisioned that the Internet of Things (IoT) will provide promising opportunities to users,
manufacturers, and service providers with a wide applicability in many fields. By employing …

Despite of the undisputed benefits of the long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) networks,
offering support for group-oriented services challenges the evolved multimedia broadcast …

In long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) networks, the mobile devices can concurrently
participate in cooperative outband device-to-device (D2D) data exchange by virtue of user …

This paper investigates relay-based schemes in cellular systems, where multihop device-to-
device (D2D) communications are exploited for content uploading toward the eNodeB. All …

While achieving desired performance, there exist still many challenges in current cellular
networks to support the multimedia content dissemination services. The conventional …