This paper provides an overview of the use of small cells (eg, femtocells) in the Internet of
Things (IoT) environments. As a result of rapid increase in the number of mobile connected …

Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

This work presents an estimation of the global electricity usage that can be ascribed to
Communication Technology (CT) between 2010 and 2030. The scope is three scenarios for …

The popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles has exploded over the last few years, urgently
demanding solutions to transfer large amounts of data from the UAV to the ground …

Peer-to-peer communication has been recently considered as a popular issue for local area
services. An innovative resource allocation scheme is proposed to improve the performance …

This chapter elaborates on the most significant components in the smartphone usage, which
is the space discovery paradigms, and discusses offline tracking applications. Rahmati and …

This comprehensive resource explores state-of-the-art advances in the successful
deployment and operation of small cell networks. A broad range of technical challenges …

Femtocells are a solution that helps to reduce the capital and operational expenditure of a
mobile network while enhancing system coverage and capacity. However, the avoidance of …

Mobile telephony equipment is daily carried by billions of subscribers everywhere they go.
Avoiding linkability of subscribers by third parties, and protecting the privacy of those …

In the nowadays heterogeneous wireless environment, a plethora of access networks have
to be inter-connected in an optimal manner to meet the always best connected paradigm …