Control-plane operations are indispensable to providing data access to mobile devices in
the 4G LTE networks. They provision necessary control states at the device and network …

To efficiently support and manage massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) short and
bursty sessions, current long-term evolution (LTE) system needs to reduce signal load …

The most energy-consuming applications in battery life-constrained smartphones are the
ones that comprise data transmission, especially via the 3G interface. Scheduling download …

The CAP theorem [1] exposes the fundamental tradeoffs among three key properties of
strong consistency, availability and partition tolerance in distributed networked systems. In …

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and their ever evolving capabilities are bringing
them closer to personal computers. Nonetheless, due to their mobility and small size factor …

It is challenging to save energy in smartphones by shortening simply tail time for user real-
time interactive applications. Because users' behavior is stochastic and random so that it is …

Abstract Quality-of-Experience (QoE) can be defined as the metric that users use to evaluate
the quality of service that they receive. While today's network operators wield the ability to …