The exponential growth and availability of data in all forms is the main booster to the
continuing evolution in the communications industry. The popularization of traffic-intensive …

In futuristic wireless communications, a massive number of devices need to access networks
with diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements. It is estimated that the number of …

Recently, to address the astonishing capacity requirement of 5G, researchers are
investigating the possibility of combining different technologies with ultra-dense networks …

In this paper, we propose a general mathematical framework to compute the average
downlink rate in a multiple connectivity context considering ultra-dense network (UDN) …

A user-centric ultra-dense network (UUDN) is proposed as one of the promising solutions to
provide very high area throughput density and flexible access service for users in the fifth …

The deluge of huge data demanding applications has imposed a challenge for next
generation cellular system to support high data rate with reduced energy consumption …

The recent advances and unprecedented ubiquity of computation-intensive applications
such as virtual reality and mobile augmented reality force new approaches to handle the …

Coexistence of Human-Type Communications (HTCs) and Machine-Type Communications
(MTCs) is inevitable. Ultra-Dense Networks (UDNs) will be efficacious in supporting both …

Heterogeneous ultra dense network (UDN) emerges as one of the potential techniques to
tackle the 1000x data challenge in 5G network. However, by cell densification, backhaul …

This letter introduces a user-centric small cell clustering mechanism, which: 1) strengthens
the received signal-to-interference-ratio (SIR) by small cell cooperation and 2) enables …