A survey on downlink–uplink decoupled access: Advances, challenges, and open problems

Y Shi, E Alsusa, MW Baidas - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of new uplink (UL) intensive applications, coupled with the ambitious vision
of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), will soon unleash unprecedented increases in UL wireless …

Interference characterization in cellular-assisted vehicular communications with jamming

M Arif, W Kim, S Qureshi - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automobile industry has been evolving with rapid growth over the last two decades.
Conventionally, the narrow band dedicated short-range communications is used for the …

Network slicing resource allocation based on LSTM-D3QN with dual connectivity in heterogeneous cellular networks

G Chen, X Mu, F Shen, Q Zeng - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the explosive growth of network traffic and the diversification of service demands,
network slicing (NS) and dual connectivity (DC) are considered as promising technologies in …

Analysis of Fluctuating Antenna Beamwidth in UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks

M Arif, W Kim - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates a cellular network assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in
the presence of a fluctuating 3-dimensional (3D) antenna beamwidth. The primary objective …

Coverage probability of aerial heterogeneous networks disrupting dual connectivity in the Presence of Jammers

M Arif, W Kim, MS Haroon - AEU-International Journal of Electronics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The coverage performance of the target user in dual connectivity-enabled heterogeneous
networks is adversely affected depending upon the presence and distribution of wide-band …