Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting a broad range of
complex compelling applications both in military and civilian fields, where the users are able …

The emergence of low-cost connected devices is enabling a new wave of sensorization
services. These services can be highly leveraged in industrial applications. However, the …

Heterogeneous small cell networks have attracted much attention for satisfying users'
explosive data traffic requirements. The heterogeneous cloud small cell network (HCSNet) …

Ultra-dense networks (UDNs) have been employed to solve the pressing problems in
relation to the increasing demand for higher coverage and capacity of the fifth generation …

Cellular network is widely used and device-to-device (D2D)-assisted approaches have been
proposed for improving performance on spectrum efficiency, overall throughput and energy …

Cooperative communication is a key technique in fifth generation (5G) mobile wireless
networks. In this paper, we study the transmit antenna selection (TAS) in mobile cooperative …

Although millimeter-wave aerial base station (mAeBS) gains rich wireless capacity, it is
technically difficult for deploying several mAeBSs to solve the surge of data traffic in hotspots …

Content caching at the base stations (BSs) is a promising strategy that can provide improved
quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning for content-centric services, and at the same time …

Femtocells in two-tier femto-macro networks can enhance indoor coverage and improve
overall network performance. Macro networks may share spectrum with overlaid femtocells …

Energy efficiency is a growing concern in every aspect of the technology. Apart from
maintaining profitability, energy efficiency means a decrease in the overall environmental …