The significant growth in the number of WiFi-enabled devices as well as the increase in the
traffic conveyed through wireless local area networks (WLANs) necessitate the adoption of …

For small cell technology to significantly increase the capacity of tower-based cellular
networks, mobile users will need to be actively pushed onto the more lightly loaded tiers …

The explosive development of ICT (information and communication technology) industry has
emerged as one of the major sources of world energy consumption. Therefore, this paper …

Recently, a number of technologies have been developed to promote vehicular networks.
When vehicles are associated with the heterogeneous base stations (eg, macrocells …

With wireless technologies becoming prevalent at the last hop, today's network operators
need to manage WiFi access networks in unison with their wired counterparts. However, the …

User association is necessary in dense millimeter wave (mmWave) networks to determine
which base station a user connects to in order to balance base station loads and maximize a …

With the rapidly growing traffic demand, the cellular industry is moving toward heterogeneity
to fulfill the heavy traffic requirement. The existing heterogeneous networks are comprised of …

In this paper, we investigate the problem of achieving proportional fairness via access point
(AP) association in multirate WLANs. This problem is formulated as a nonlinear …

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is a growing area of communication with a
variety of use cases. This paper investigates the problem of vehicle-cell association in …

The exponential growth of mobile data in macronetworks has driven the evolution of
communications systems toward spectrally efficient, energy efficient, and fast local area …