Ιn this review article, a comprehensive study is provided regarding the latest achievements
in simulation techniques and platforms for fifth generation (5G) wireless cellular networks. In …

The Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is the next generation of current mobile telecommunication
networks. LTE has a new flat radio-network architecture and a significant increase in …

The use of static system-level simulators is common practice for estimating the impact of re-
planning actions in cellular networks. In this paper, a modification of a classical static Long …

In the context of Long‐Term Evolution (LTE), the next generation mobile telecommunication
network, femtocells are low‐power base stations that efficiently provide coverage and …

How to efficiently use the limited wireless bandwidth is of paramount important in the radio
wireless network area. To use the wireless bandwidth in an efficiently way, one can consider …

3GPP LTE is the evolution of UMTS which will make possible to deliver high quality
multimedia services with an improved user experience. Since Radio Resource Management …

Abstract The LTE/LTE-Advanced standardization activity is an ongoing task to build up a
framework for the evolution of the 3GPP radio technologies towards the 4G and beyond. The …

Channel estimation is a key aspect for the performance of the physical layer in all MIMO-
OFDM systems. In order to obtain realistic performance assessments from the LTE link level …

This paper presents a framework to activate and deactivate micronodes in a heterogeneous
multicell LTE network, based on load and energy efficiency consideration. The framework …

The main objectives of this dissertation are the evaluation of the link level performance and
the study of link abstraction for LTE/LTE-Advanced DL. An E-UTRA DL link level simulator …