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Emergence of new types of services has led to various traffic and diverse delay requirements in fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. Meeting diverse delay requirements is one of the most critical goals for the design of 5G wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Yi Zhong , Tony Q. S. Quek , Xiaohu Ge

An increasing number of mobile applications rely on Machine Learning (ML) routines for analyzing data. Executing such tasks at the user devices saves the energy spent on transmitting and processing large data volumes at distant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Apostolos Galanopoulos , George Iosifidis , Theodoros Salonidis , Douglas J. Leith

Carrier aggregation (CA) and small cells are two distinct features of next-generation cellular networks. Cellular networks with small cells take on a very heterogeneous characteristic, and are often referred to as HetNets. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xingqin Lin , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Amitava Ghosh

Small-cell architecture is widely adopted by cellular network operators to increase network capacity. By reducing the size of cells, operators can pack more (low-power) base stations in an area to better serve the growing demands, without…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Lei Deng , Yinghui He , Ying Zhang , Minghua Chen , Zongpeng Li , Jack Y. B. Lee , Ying Jun Zhang , Lingyang Song

Resource allocation in LTE networks is known to be an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we address an even more complex scenario: an LTE-based, 2-tier heterogeneous network where D2D mode is supported under the network control. All…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Francesco Malandrino , Claudio Casetti , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini , Zana Limani

This article explores one of the key enablers of beyond $4$G wireless networks leveraging small cell network deployments, namely proactive caching. Endowed with predictive capabilities and harnessing recent developments in storage,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

The rate distribution in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) greatly benefits from load balancing, by which mobile users are pushed onto lightly-loaded small cells despite the resulting loss in SINR. This offloading can be made more aggressive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Qiaoyang Ye , Mazin Al-Shalash , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

During the past few decades wireless technology has seen a tremendous growth. The recent introduction of high-end mobile devices has further increased subscriber's demand for high bandwidth. Current cellular systems require manual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Sumita Mishra , Nidhi Mathur

LTE femtocells have been widely deployed to increase network capacity and to offload mobile data traffic from macrocells. While cellular users' mobility behaviors are taken into consideration, a dilemma is formed: Should a User Equipment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Wei-Han Chen , Yi Ren , Chia-Wei Chang , Jyh-Cheng Chen

The intense demands for higher data rates and ubiquitous network coverage have raised the stakes on developing new network topology and architecture to meet these ever-increasing demands in a cost-effective manner. The telecommunication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Wei Wang , Lin Yang , Qian Zhang , Tao Jiang

A wireless system is considered, where, computationally complex algorithms are offloaded from user devices to an edge cloud server, for the purpose of efficient battery usage. The main focus of this paper is to characterize and analyze, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Shreya Tayade , Peter Rost , Andreas Maeder , Hans D. Schotten

A delay-optimal caching problem (DOCP) in deviceto- device (D2D) networks with moblity is modelled. The problem arises in the context of achieving offloading using device caching, and the offloading effect is represented by the expected…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Tao Deng , Lei You , Pingzhi Fan , Di Yuan

Device-to-device (D2D) communications as an underlay of a LTE-A (4G) network can reduce the traffic load as well as power consumption in cellular networks by way of utilizing peer-to-peer links for users in proximity of each other. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Sajjad Mehri Alamouti , Ahmad R. Sharafat

Offloading high-demanding applications to the edge provides better quality of experience (QoE) for users with limited hardware devices. However, to maintain a competitive QoE, infrastructure, and service providers must adapt to users'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-29 João Paulo Esper , Nadjib Achir , Kleber Vieira Cardoso , Jussara M. Almeida

Caching at the network edge has emerged as a viable solution for alleviating the severe capacity crunch in modern content centric wireless networks by leveraging network load-balancing in the form of localized content storage and delivery.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Avik Sengupta , Ravi Tandon

Edge intelligent applications like VR/AR and language model based chatbots have become widespread with the rapid expansion of IoT and mobile devices. However, constrained edge devices often cannot serve the increasingly large and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Recently, cellular networks are severely overloaded by social-based services, such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, in which thousands of clients subscribe a common content provider (e.g., a popular singer) and download his/her content…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Tianyu Wang , Yue Sun , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pushes computing functionalities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge, thereby meeting the latency requirements of many emerging mobile applications and saving backhaul network bandwidth. Although…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Jie Xu , Lixing Chen , Pan Zhou

The service provided by mobile networks operated today is not adapted to spatio-temporal fluctuations in traffic demand, although such fluctuations offer opportunities for energy savings. In particular, significant gains in energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Emmanuel Pollakis , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak