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Ultra-dense network (UDN) is one of the enabling technologies to achieve 1000-fold capacity increase in 5G communication systems, and the application of joint transmission (JT) is an effective method to deal with severe inter-cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-28 Shuyi Chen , Xiqing Liu , Tianyu Zhao , Hsiao-Hwa Chen , Weixiao Meng

Handover (HO) management is one of the most crucial tasks in dense cellular networks with mobile users. A problem in the HO management is to deal with increasing HOs due to network densification in the 5G evolution and various HO skipping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Kiichi Tokuyama , Tatsuaki Kimura , Naoto Miyoshi

Heterogeneous small cell network has attracted much attention to satisfy users' explosive data traffic requirements. Heterogeneous cloud small cell network (HCSNet), which combines cloud computing and heterogeneous small cell network, will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Haijun Zhang , Chunxiao Jiang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung

The rapid advancement of 5G has transformed vehicular networks, offering high bandwidth, low latency, and fast data rates essential for real-time applications in smart cities and vehicles. These improvements enhance traffic safety and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nazanin Mehregan , Robson E. De Grande

This article investigates the performance of an ultra-dense network (UDN) from an energy-efficiency (EE) standpoint leveraging the interplay between stochastic geometry (SG) and mean-field game (MFG) theory. In this setting, base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mérouane Debbah

This paper provides an analytical performance characterization of both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) user-centric network multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where a cooperating BS cluster is formed for each user individually and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Caiyi Zhu , Wei Yu

The construction of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has recently spurred tremendous attention from academia and industry. 5G and 6G standards have specified LEO satellite network as a key component of 5G and 6G networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jiasheng Wu , Shaojie Su , Xiong Wang , Jingjing Zhang , Yue Gao

The femtocell networks that use home base station and existing xDSL or other cable line as backhaul connectivity can fulfill the upcoming demand of high data rate for wireless communication system as well as can extend the coverage area.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Won Ryu , Eunjun Rhee , Yeong Min Jang

This paper considers a mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network composed of a large number of geographically distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serving multiple user equipments (UEs) via coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

The support for aerial users has become the focus of recent 3GPP standardizations of 5G, due to their high maneuverability and flexibility for on-demand deployment. In this paper, probabilistic caching is studied for ultra-dense small-cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Fei Song , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Feng Shu , Meixia Tao , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

The advent of 5G New Radio (NR) technology has revolutionized the landscape of wireless communication, offering various enhancements such as elevated system capacity, improved spectrum efficiency, and higher data transmission rates. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Donglin Wang , Anjie Qiu , Qiuheng Zhou , Sanket Partani , Hans D. Schotten

To address the issues of high operational costs and low energy efficiency (EE) caused by the dense deployment of small base stations (s-BSs) in 5G ultra-dense networks (UDNs), this paper first constructs a multi-objective mathematical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ruixing Ren , Shan Chen , Xuehan Bao , Pingzheng Ge , Dongming Wang , Junhui Zhao

Wireless content caching in small cell networks (SCNs) has recently been considered as an efficient way to reduce the traffic and the energy consumption of the backhaul in emerging heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Zheng Chen , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek , Marios Kountouris

Small-cell densification is a strategy enabling the offloading of users from macro base stations (MBSs), in order to alleviate their load and increase the coverage, especially, for cell-edge users. In parallel, as the network increases in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , John M. Senior , Symeon Chatzinotas

Future cellular networks will be dense and require key traffic management technologies for fine-grained network control. The problem gets more complicated in the presence of different network segments with bottleneck links limiting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Furqan Hameed Khan , Marius Portmann

For fifth-generation (5G) and 5G-Advanced networks, outage reduction within the context of reliability is a key objective since outage denotes the time period when a user equipment (UE) cannot communicate with the network. Earlier studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Subhyal Bin Iqbal , Umur Karabulut , Ahmad Awada , Philipp Schulz , Gerhard P. Fettweis

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

In this paper, a novel approach for joint power control and user scheduling is proposed for optimizing energy efficiency (EE), in terms of bits per unit energy, in ultra dense small cell networks (UDNs). Due to severe coupling in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Mérouane Debba , Matti Latva-aho

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

A novel generalized coordinated multi-point transmission (GCoMP)-enabled non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme is proposed. In particular, the traditional joint transmission CoMP scheme is generalized to be applied for all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Yasser Al-Eryani , Ekram Hossain , Dong In Kim