Due to global climate change as well as economic concern of network operators, energy
consumption of the infrastructure of cellular networks, or “Green Cellular Networking,” has …

Small cell networks offer a promising and viable approach to meeting the increasing
demand for high-data-rate wireless applications. With the expected increase in the number …

Heterogeneous Network (HetNet), where Small cell Base Stations (SBSs) are densely
deployed to offload traffic from macro Base Stations (BSs), is identified as a key solution to …

Next generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to be supported by an extensive
infrastructure with many-fold increase in the number of cells per unit area compared to …

To further improve the energy efficiency of heterogeneous networks, a separation
architecture called hyper-cellular network (HCN) has been proposed, which decouples the …

5G Heterogeneous network is characterized with small cells in close proximity with one
another which in most cases are active even at low traffic load periods. Such scenarios lead …

Network slicing is an integral part of 5G, which supports next-generation wireless
applications over a shared network infrastructure. It paves the way to leverage the full …

Focus on the energy saving problem in cloud radio access network (C-RAN), this paper
jointly optimizes the system power consumption and delay performance with the …

The increase in the volume of mobile data traffic degrades network performance. To improve
this situation, a novel network architecture called cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has …

Green communication is becoming an impacting quality feature in cellular communications
nowadays. Several techniques discuss how to improve cellular network energy efficiency …