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In this paper, we study the problem of joint inband backhauling and interference mitigation in 5G heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in which a massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) macro cell base station equipped with a large number…

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In this paper, statistical Quality of Service provisioning in next generation heterogeneous mobile cellular networks is investigated. To this aim, any active entity of the cellular network is regarded as a queuing system, whose statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Alireza Sadeghi , Michele Luvisotto , Farshad Lahouti , Stefano Vitturi , Michele Zorzi

The number of LTE users and their applications has increased significantly in the last decade, which increased the demand on the mobile network. LTE-Advanced comes with many features that can support this increasing demand. LTE-Advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Najem N Sirhan , Manel Martinez-Ramon

The rapid growth of radio access networks (RANs) is increasing energy consumption and challenging the sustainability of future systems. We consider a dense-urban vertical heterogeneous network (vHetNet) comprising a high-altitude platform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Georges Kaddoum

Now a day's Heterogeneous wireless network is a promising field of research interest. Various challenges exist in this hybrid combination like load balancing, resource management and so on. In this paper we introduce a reliable load…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Md. Golam Rabiul Alam , Chayan Biswas , Naushin Nower , Mohammed Shafiul Alam Khan

This study aims to introduce and address the problem of traffic load estimation in the cell switching concept within the evolving landscape of vertical heterogeneous networks (vHetNets). The problem is that the practice of cell switching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Metin Ozturk , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, we study the downlink performance of a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where both macro and small cells share the same spectrum and hence interfere with each other. We assume that the users are concentrated at certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Ansuman Adhikary , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output is promising to meet the stringent quality-of-experience (QoE) requirements of railway wireless communications by coordinating many successional access points (APs) to serve the onboard users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yu Zhang , Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang

Optimizing the cellular network's cell locations is one of the most fundamental problems of network design. The general objective is to provide the desired Quality-of-Service (QoS) with the minimum system cost. In order to meet a growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang , Xiaoli Chu , Jiming Chen , Hui Song , Jie Zhang

Statistical QoS provisioning as an important performance metric in analyzing next generation mobile cellular network, aka 5G, is investigated. In this context, by quantifying the performance in terms of the effective capacity, we introduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Alireza Sadeghi , Michele Luvisotto , Farshad Lahouti , Michele Zorzi

One of the main goals of the future wireless networks is improving the users quality of experience (QoE). In this paper, we consider the problem of QoE-based resource allocation in the downlink of a massive multiple-input multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Hadis Abarghouyi , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Emil Bjornson

Using a network of cache enabled small cells, traffic during peak hours can be reduced considerably through proactively fetching the content that is most probable to be requested. In this paper, we aim at exploring the impact of proactive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad

The densification and expansion of wireless network pose new challenges on interference management and reducing energy consumption. This paper studies energy-efficient resource management in heterogeneous networks by jointly optimizing cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Quan Kuang , Wolfgang Utschick

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides low-latency offloading solutions for computationally intensive tasks, effectively improving the computing efficiency and battery life of mobile devices. However, for data-intensive tasks or scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xuyang Chen , Daquan Feng , Wei Jiang , Qu Luo , Gaojie Chen , Yao Sun

As future networks aim to meet the ever-increasing requirements of high data rate applications, dense and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) will be deployed to provide better coverage and throughput. Besides the important implications for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Howard H. Yang , Giovanni Geraci , Tony Q. S. Quek

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

In heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), it is desirable to offload mobile users to small cells, which are typically significantly less congested than the macrocells. To achieve sufficient load balancing, the offloaded users often have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Sarabjot Singh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Future wireless networks powered by renewable energy sources and storage systems (e.g., batteries) require energy-aware mechanisms to ensure stability in critical and high-demand scenarios. These include large-scale user gatherings,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Mustafa Mohammed Hasan Alkalsh , Adam Samorzewski , Adrian Kliks

For small cell technology to significantly increase the capacity of tower-based cellular networks, mobile users will need to be actively pushed onto the more lightly loaded tiers (corresponding to, e.g., pico and femtocells), even if they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Qiaoyang Ye , Beiyu Rong , Yudong Chen , Mazin Al-Shalash , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

As one of the Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) techniques, Joint Transmission (JT) can improve the overall system performance. In this paper, from the load balancing perspective, we study how the maximum load can be reduced by optimizing JT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Lei You , Lei Lei , Di Yuan