Conventional cellular wireless networks were designed with the purpose of providing high
throughput for the user and high capacity for the service provider, without any provisions of …

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access networks
and is currently being standardized in 3GPP to be part of the LTE-Advanced release 10. Two …

In this paper, we provide a survey on abstraction models for evaluating aggregate
interference statistics in urban heterogeneous cellular networks. The two principal …

Relaying is considered a promising cost-efficient solution in 3GPP LTE-Advanced for
coverage extension and throughput enhancement. Due to compact physical characteristics …

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access networks
and is already standardized in 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) as a part of long …

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to current radio access networks
and is now being standardized in the 3GPP work item on LTE-Advanced. Relay enhanced …

Phases I and II of the WINNER project contributed to the development, integration, and
assessment of new mobile network techniques from 2004 to 2007. Some of these …

Network planning tools are routinely used by operators to improve the system performance
and to provide a satisfactory service with minimal deployment expenditure. In this context …

It is increasingly apparent that with the help of wireless communications each automotive
vehicle will be a unique node on a global, vehicular communications network in the future …

The performance of relay deployments depends significantly on the capacity of the wireless
relay link between a relay node (RN) and its serving base station (BS). Exploiting the …