Multiobjective load balancing for multiband downlink cellular networks: A meta-reinforcement learning approach

A Feriani, D Wu, YT Xu, J Li, S Jang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Load balancing has become a key technique to handle the increasing traffic demand and
improve the user experience. It evenly distributes the traffic across network resources by …

Load balancing for 5G ultra-dense networks using device-to-device communications

H Zhang, L Song, YJ Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Load balancing is an effective approach to address the spatial-temporal fluctuation problem
of mobile data traffic for cellular networks. The existing schemes that focus on channel …

Spectral efficiency analysis for massive MIMO system under QoS constraint: an effective capacity perspective

L Chen, L Zhang - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2021 - Springer
In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, dozens of mobile users can
simultaneously receive signals from one base station. To obtain maximum spectral efficiency …

Incentivizing device-to-device load balancing for cellular networks: An online auction design

MH Hajiesmaili, L Deng, M Chen… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The device-to-device load balancing (D2D-LB) paradigm has been advocated in recent
small-cell architecture design for cellular networks. The idea is to exploit inter-cell D2D …

Vehicle-centric network association in heterogeneous vehicle-to-vehicle networks

SC Hung, X Zhang, A Festag, KC Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe and reliable operation of future autonomous vehicles requires ultra-low latency vehicle-
to-vehicle (V2V) networking. However, due to scalability issues of purely ad hoc network …

A relay-aided device-to-device-based load balancing scheme for multitier heterogeneous networks

F Jiang, Y Liu, B Wang, X Wang - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key feature of the next generation wireless networks (5G), heterogeneous networks
(HetNets) architecture is embraced as the fundamental network technology to meet the …

Joint Deep Reinforcement Learning and Unsupervised Learning for Channel Selection and Power Control in D2D Networks

M Sun, Y Jin, S Wang, E Mei - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Device-to-device (D2D) technology enables direct communication between devices, which
can effectively solve the problem of insufficient spectrum resources in 5G communication …

Analysis of opportunistic relaying and load balancing gains through V2V clustering

S Kassir, G de Veciana, N Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in digitization, artificial intelligence, and wireless networking are
revolutionizing the traditional transportation networks and the automotive industry, leading …

Reducing cellular signaling traffic for heartbeat messages via energy-efficient D2D forwarding

Y Jin, F Liu, X Yi, M Chen - 2017 IEEE 37th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Instant Messaging (IM) apps, such as WhatsApp and WeChat, frequently send
heartbeat messages to remote servers to maintain always-online status. Periodic heartbeat …

Enhancing cellular performance via vehicular-based opportunistic relaying and load balancing

S Kassir, G de Veciana, N Wang… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automotive industry is undergoing disruptive changes, eg, ride sharing and self-driving
cars which, in addition to leveraging wireless connectivity, may lead to dramatic changes in …