Future 5th generation networks are expected to enable three key services-enhanced mobile
broadband, massive machine type communications and ultra-reliable and low latency …

To manage a growing number of users and an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth,
future 5th Generation (5G) cellular networks will combine different radio access technologies …

With both small-cell LTE and Wi-Fi networks available as alternatives for deployment in
unlicensed bands (notably 5 GHz), the investigation into their coexistence is a topic of active …

License-assisted access (LAA) is a promising technology to offload dramatically increasing
cellular traffic to unlicensed bands. Challenges arise from the provision of quality-of-service …

Increasing capacity demands in emerging wireless technologies are expected to be met by
network densification and spectrum bands open to multiple technologies. These will, in turn …

LTE Licensed Assisted Access (LTE-LAA) is a promising solution for harmonious
coexistence with WiFi in unlicensed spectrum. Although LTE-LAA employs a listen-before …

Long term evolution (LTE) technology leveraging the unlicensed band is anticipated to
provide a solution for the challenges stemming from the rapid growth of mobile wireless …

Spectrum sharing mechanisms need to be carefully designed to enable inter-technology
coexistence in the unlicensed bands, as these bands are an instance of a spectrum …

Big data sharing in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSSs) relies on wireless transmission
between numerous devices, causing a serious scarcity of radio spectrum resources …

Unlike the conventional device-to-device (D2D) networks, the unlicensed D2D (D2D-U)
pairs can not only reuse the licensed channels with the base station (BS) but also share the …