User association in 5G networks: A survey and an outlook

D Liu, L Wang, Y Chen, M Elkashlan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisioned to support the deluge of data traffic
with reduced energy consumption and improved quality of service (QoS) provision. To this …

Towards 1 Gbps/UE in cellular systems: Understanding ultra-dense small cell deployments

D López-Pérez, M Ding, H Claussen… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's heterogeneous networks comprised of mostly macrocells and indoor small cells will
not be able to meet the upcoming traffic demands. Indeed, it is forecasted that at least a 100 …

Evolution toward 5G multi-tier cellular wireless networks: An interference management perspective

E Hossain, M Rasti, H Tabassum… - IEEE Wireless …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to overcome the
fundamental challenges of existing cellular networks, for example, higher data rates …

Fundamental green tradeoffs: Progresses, challenges, and impacts on 5G networks

S Zhang, Q Wu, S Xu, GY Li - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With years of tremendous traffic and energy consumption growth, green radio has been
valued not only for theoretical research interests but also for the operational expenditure …

A survey of resource management toward 5G radio access networks

TO Olwal, K Djouani, AM Kurien - … Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generation 5G radio access network (RAN) system is believed to be a true world
wide wireless web (WWWW). This is because such system will seamlessly and ubiquitously …

Joint resource partitioning and offloading in heterogeneous cellular networks

S Singh, JG Andrews - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), it is desirable to offload mobile users to small
cells, which are typically significantly less congested than the macrocells. To achieve …

On the expanded region of picocells in heterogeneous networks

D Lopez-Perez, X Chu, İ Guvenc - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to expand the downlink (DL) coverage areas of picocells in the presence of an
umbrella macrocell, the concept of range expansion has been recently proposed, in which a …

An end-to-end load balancer based on deep learning for vehicular network traffic control

J Li, G Luo, N Cheng, Q Yuan, Z Wu… - IEEE Internet of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The infrastructure to vehicle (I2V) communication boosts a large number of prevailing
vehicular services, which can provide vehicles with external information, storage, and …

Cell selection for range expansion with almost blank subframe in heterogeneous networks

J Oh, Y Han - 2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To encourage data offloading in heterogeneous networks, range expansion techniques
have been introduced in LTE-Advanced system. By adding a positive bias in cell selection …

On number of almost blank subframes in heterogeneous cellular networks

M Cierny, H Wang, R Wichman, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In heterogeneous cellular scenarios with macrocells, femtocells or picocells users may suffer
from significant co-channel cross-tier interference. To manage this interference 3GPP …