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 …
S Chen, R Ma, HH Chen, H Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve 1000-fold capacity increase in 5G wireless communications, ultradense network (UDN) is believed to be one of the key enabling technologies. Most of the previous research …
M Chen, W Saad, C Yin - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uplink-downlink decoupling in which users can be associated to different base stations in the uplink and downlink of heterogeneous small cell networks (SCNs) has attracted …
Q Chen, G Yu, Z Ding - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Long-term evolution in unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U) is an emerging technology for expanding cellular network capacity without additional spectrum cost. This paper …
S Xu, Y Li, Y Gao, Y Liu, H Gačanin - Ieee Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To alleviate the problem of scarce spectrum resources and meet the ever-increasing of mobile broadband data traffic demands, Licensed Assisted Access (LAA)-Long Term …
Device-to-device (D2D) communications with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been proved in enhancing the network capacity and reducing the burden of the traditional …
To overcome the lack of spectrum resources, the proposal of extending LTE (Long Term Evolution) to the readily available unlicensed spectrum is receiving much attention …
Long-Term Evolution (LTE) over unlicensed spectrum extends LTE technology to the spacious unlicensed spectrum with readily available bandwidth. The provided capacity …
R Liu, G Yu, F Qu, Z Zhang - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel technology, namely, device-to-device communications in the unlicensed spectrum (D2D-U) is proposed, which can allow D2D users to transmit on the …