Multi-connectivity for 5G networks and beyond: A survey

T Sylla, L Mendiboure, S Maaloul, H Aniss, MA Chalouf… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
To manage a growing number of users and an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth,
future 5th Generation (5G) cellular networks will combine different radio access technologies …

Service-oriented energy-latency tradeoff for IoT task partial offloading in MEC-enhanced multi-RAT networks

M Qin, N Cheng, Z Jing, T Yang, W Xu… - IEEE Internet of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of the 5G network is envisioned to offer various types of services like
virtual reality/augmented reality and autonomous vehicles applications with low-latency …

An efficient SDN‐based LTE‐WiFi spectrum aggregation system for heterogeneous 5G networks

K Abbas, M Afaq, T Ahmed Khan… - Transactions on …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, the continuously increasing demand for high data traffic and providing different
quality of services (QoS) to the customer are very challenging tasks for all network operators …

Joint path selection and rate allocation framework for 5G self-backhauled mm-wave networks

TK Vu, M Bennis, M Debbah… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to severe path loss and unreliable transmission over a long distance at higher
frequency bands, this paper investigates the problem of path selection and rate allocation for …

Optimal resource allocations for mobile data offloading via dual-connectivity

Y Wu, Y He, LP Qian, J Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of mobile traffic has heavily overloaded the cellular networks, making it
increasingly desirable to offload mobile users'(MUs') traffic to small-cell networks. In this …

A DRL-based automated algorithm selection framework for cross-layer QoS-aware scheduling and antenna allocation in massive MIMO systems

CW Huang, I Althamary, YC Chou, HY Chen… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems support advanced applications with
high data rates, low latency, and high reliability in next-generation mobile networks …

Network-aided intelligent traffic steering in 6g O-RAN: A multi-layer optimization framework

VD Nguyen, TX Vu, NT Nguyen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To enable an intelligent, programmable and multi-vendor radio access network (RAN) for 6G
networks, considerable efforts have been made in standardization and development of open …

Optimal traffic aggregation in multi-RAT heterogeneous wireless networks

S Singh, S Yeh, N Himayat… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic load balancing and radio resource management is key to harness the dense and
increasingly heterogeneous deployment of next generation “5G” wireless infrastructure …

Energy-efficient edge offloading in heterogeneous industrial IoT networks for factory of future

CW Hsu, YL Hsu, HY Wei - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) and massive machine type
communication (mMTC) in 5G are envisioned to support intelligent automation in the …

Scheduling design and performance analysis of carrier aggregation in satellite communication systems

H Al-Hraishawi, N Maturo, E Lagunas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Carrier Aggregation is one of the vital approaches to achieve several orders of magnitude
increase in peak data rates. While carrier aggregation benefits have been extensively …