This paper provides a tutorial on mobility-aware performance analysis of cellular networks
considering both the spatially random [where base stations (BSs) are deployed according to …

Horizontal and vertical handoffs are important ramifications of user mobility in multitier
heterogeneous wireless networks. They directly impact the signaling overhead and quality …

Providing network connectivity to mobile users is a key requirement for cellular wireless
networks. User mobility impacts network performance as well as user perceived service …

Network densification with Small Cells (SCs) has emerged as a key technique to increase
the 5G network capacity. However, in a densified network, fast mobile nodes will experience …

The node placement problem involves positioning and configuring infrastructure for wireless
networks. Applied to next generation networks, it establishes a new wireless architecture …

Fog computing is a promising solution to provide low-latency and ubiquitously available
computation offloading services to widely distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with …

Recently, heterogeneous networks with small cells have been widely used to increase the
capacity of mobile systems. In such environments, accurate estimation of the mean cell …

In this work, we investigate a general performance evaluation framework for network
selection strategies (NSSs) that are used in 3G-WLAN interworking networks. Instead of …

We are currently witnessing a growing interest of network operators to migrate their existing
2G/3G networks to 4G technologies such as long-term evolution (LTE) to enhance the user …

This paper investigates the problem of network selection in access control for
heterogeneous networks of WCDMA/WLAN. To optimize the network selection decision …