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 …

Seamless and ubiquitous coverage are key factors for future cellular networks. Despite
capacity and data rates being the main topics under discussion when envisioning the Fifth …

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 …

Network densification is a promising approach to support the ever-increasing required
capacity in cellular networks. Besides, securing the gigantic amount of sensitive data …

In this thesis, a novel concept of cell-sweeping based Base Station (BS) deployment in the
Radio Access Network (RAN) for coverage enhancement in cellular systems was …

Ultra-Dense Network (UDN) is one of the promising and leading directions in Fifth
Generation and beyond (5GB) networks. In UDNs, Small Cells (SCs) or Small Base Stations …

The new wireless era in the next decade and beyond would be very different from our
experience nowadays. The fast pace of introducing new technologies, services, and …