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Mobility management in dense cellular networks is challenging due to varying user speeds and deployment conditions. Traditional 3GPP handover (HO) schemes, relying on fixed A3-offset and time-to-trigger (TTT) parameters, struggle to balance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Mohamed Benzaghta , Sahar Ammar , David López-Pérez , Basem Shihada , Giovanni Geraci

Handover (HO) management has attracted attention of research in the context of wireless cellular communication networks. One crucial problem of HO management is to deal with increasing HOs experienced by a mobile user. To address this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Kiichi Tokuyama , Tatsuaki Kimura , Naoto Miyoshi

Energy efficient mobility management is an important problem in modern wireless networks with heterogeneous cell sizes and increased nodes densities. We show that optimization-based mobility protocols cannot achieve long-term optimal energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Cong Shen , Cem Tekin , Mihaela van der Schaar

Ultra-dense networks (UDNs) envision the massive deployment of heterogenous base stations (BSs) to meet the desired traffic demands. Furthermore, UDNs are expected to support the diverse devices e.g., personal mobile devices and unmanned…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Rabe Arshad , Hesham ElSawy , Lutz Lampe , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Mobile users in an ultra-dense millimeter-wave cellular network experience handover events more frequently than in conventional networks, which results in increased service interruption time and performance degradation due to blockages.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Seongjoon Kang , Siyoung Choi , Goodsol Lee , Saewoong Bahk

Ultra network densification is considered a major trend in the evolution of cellular networks, due to its ability to bring the network closer to the user side and reuse resources to the maximum extent. In this paper we explore spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Antonis G. Gotsis , Stelios Stefanatos , Angeliki Alexiou

The pervasiveness of the wireless cellular network can be a key enabler for the deployment of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in beyond visual line of sight scenarios without human control. However, traditional cellular networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Walid Saad , Ismail Guvenc

The extreme traffic load that future wireless networks are expected to accommodate requires a re-thinking of the system design. Initial estimations indicate that, different from the evolutionary path of previous cellular generations that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Antonis G. Gotsis , Stelios Stefanatos , Angeliki Alexiou

In the user-centric cell-free massive MIMO (UC-mMIMO) network scheme, user mobility necessitates updating the set of serving access points to maintain the user-centric clustering. Such updates are typically performed through handoff (HO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Israfil Bahceci

How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of transmitters, interference management becomes an arduous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

While network densification is considered an important solution to cater the ever-increasing capacity demand, its effect on the handover (HO) rate is overlooked. In dense 5G networks, HO delays may neutralize or even negate the gains…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Rabe Arshad , Sameh Sorour , Hesham Elsawy , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Using stochastic geometry, we develop a tractable uplink modeling paradigm for outage probability and spectral efficiency in both single and multi-tier cellular wireless networks. The analysis accounts for per user equipment (UE) power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Hesham ElSawy , Ekram Hossain

In this paper, we propose a two-layer framework to learn the optimal handover (HO) controllers in possibly large-scale wireless systems supporting mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) users or traditional cellular users, where the user mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Zhi Wang , Lihua Li , Yue Xu , Hui Tian , Shuguang Cui

This study proposes a novel stochastic geometry framework analyzing power control strategies in spatially correlated network topologies. Heterogeneous networks are studied, with users modeled via the superposition of homogeneous and Poisson…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Martin Willame , Charles Wiame , Jérôme Louveaux , Claude Oestges , Luc Vandendorpe

In this paper, a novel social network-aware user association in wireless small cell networks with underlaid device-to-device (D2D) communication is investigated. The proposed approach exploits social strategic relationships between user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Muhammad Ikram Ashraf , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Marcos Katz , Choong-Seong Hong

Ultra-dense network deployment has been proposed as a key technique for achieving capacity goals in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system. However, the deployment of smaller cells inevitably leads to more frequent handovers,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Chujie Wang , Zhifeng Zhao , Qi Sun , Honggang Zhang

Network densification and heterogenisation through the deployment of small cellular access points (picocells and femtocells) are seen as key mechanisms in handling the exponential increase in cellular data traffic. Modelling such networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Pete Pratt , Carl P. Dettmann , Orestis Georgiou

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

Coexistence of Human-Type Communications (HTCs) and Machine-Type Communications (MTCs) is inevitable. Ultra-Dense Networks (UDNs) will be efficacious in supporting both types of communications. In a UDN, a massive number of low-power and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Mohammed Elbayoumi , Walaa Hamouda , Amr Youssef