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Efficient handover management remains a critical challenge in dense urban cellular networks, where high cell density, user mobility, and diverse service demands increase the likelihood of unnecessary handovers and ping-pong effects. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Muhammad Kabeer , Rosdiadee Nordin , Mehran Behjati , Lau Sian Lun

For the next wireless communication systems, the major challenges are to provide ubiquitous wireless access abilities and maintain the quality of service and seamless mobility management for mobile communication devices in heterogeneous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 A. Nezih Kasim

In small cell networks, high mobility of users results in frequent handoff and thus severely restricts the data rate for mobile users. To alleviate this problem, we propose to use heterogeneous, two-tier network structure where static users…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Bartłomiej Błaszczyszyn , Eitan Altman

Besides advanced telecommunications techniques, the most prominent evolution of wireless networks is the densification of network deployment. In particular, the increasing access points/users density and reduced cell size significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Lei Liu , Jiandong Li

Beam management is central in the operation of beamformed wireless cellular systems such as 5G New Radio (NR) networks. Focusing the energy radiated to mobile terminals (MTs) by increasing the number of beams per cell increases signal power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sanket S. Kalamkar , François Baccelli , Fuad M. Abinader , Andrea S. Marcano Fani , Luis G. Uzeda Garcia

The need to carry out analytical studies of wireless systems often motivates the usage of simplified models which, despite their tractability, can easily lead to an overestimation of the achievable performance. In the case of dense small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Carlo Galiotto , Nuno K. Pratas , Nicola Marchetti , Linda Doyle

Cooperation in cellular networks has been recently suggested as a promising scheme to improve system performance, especially for cell-edge users. In this work, we use stochastic geometry to analyze cooperation models where the positions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Anastasios Giovanidis , Francois Baccelli

Handover measurement is responsible for finding a handover target and directly decides the performance of mobility management. It is governed by a complex combination of parameters dealing with multi-cell scenarios and system dynamics. A…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Van Minh Nguyen , Chung Shue Chen , Laurent Thomas

Beyond 5G networks will operate at high frequencies with wide bandwidths. This brings both opportunities and challenges. Opportunities include high throughput connectivity with low latency. However, one of the main challenges in these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijaya Yajnanarayana

Handovers (HOs) are the cornerstone of modern cellular networks for enabling seamless connectivity to a vast and diverse number of mobile users. However, as mobile networks become more complex with more diverse users and smaller cells,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Michail Kalntis , Fernando A. Kuipers , George Iosifidis

One of the consequences of network densification is more frequent handovers (HO). HO failures have a direct impact on the quality of service and are undesirable, especially in scenarios with strict latency, reliability, and robustness…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Eloise de Carvalho Rodrigues , Alvaro Valcarce Rial , Giovanni Geraci

We experience a major paradigm change in mobile networks. The infrastructure of cellular networks becomes mobile as it is densified by using mobile and nomadic small cells to increase coverage and capacity. Furthermore, the innovative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Ertan Onur , Shahram Mollahasani , Alperen Eroğlu , Nina Razi Moftakhar

With users demanding seamless connectivity, handovers (HOs) have become a fundamental element of cellular networks. However, optimizing HOs is a challenging problem, further exacerbated by the growing complexity of mobile networks. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Michail Kalntis , Andra Lutu , Jesús Omaña Iglesias , Fernando A. Kuipers , George Iosifidis

We develop a framework for downlink heterogeneous cellular networks with line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions. Using stochastic geometry, we derive tight approximation of achievable downlink rate that enables us to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Qi Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jemin Lee

Due to the exponentially increased demands of mobile data traffic, e.g., a 1000-fold increase in traffic demand from 4G to 5G, network densification is considered as a key mechanism in the evolution of cellular networks, and ultra-dense…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Jianping An , Kai Yang , Jinsong Wu , Neng Ye , Song Guo , Zhifang Liao

The most promising approach to enhance network capacity for the next generation of wireless cellular networks (5G) is densification, which benefits from the extensive spatial reuse of the spectrum and the reduced distance between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Amir H. Jafari , David Lopez-Perez , Ming Ding , Jie Zhang

To improve the cellular energy efficiency, without sacrificing quality-of-service (QoS) at the users, the network topology must be densified to enable higher spatial reuse. We analyze a combination of two densification approaches, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Emil Björnson , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

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

Caching of popular contents at cellular base stations, i.e., edge caching, in order to eliminate duplicate transmission through the backhaul can reduce the latency of data delivery in $5$G networks. However, since caching can only reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Sudarshan Guruacharya , Ekram Hossain , Dusit Niyato , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Todays heterogeneous networks comprised of mostly macrocells and indoor small cells will not be able to meet the upcoming traffic demands. Indeed, it is forecasted that at least a 100x network capacity increase will be required to meet the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-29 David Lopez-Perez , Ming Ding , Holger Claussen , Amir H. Jafari