A survey on handover and mobility management in 5G HetNets: current state, challenges, and future directions

Y Ullah, MB Roslee, SM Mitani, SA Khan, MH Jusoh - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fifth-generation (5G) networks offer high-speed data transmission with low latency,
increased base station volume, improved quality of service (QoS), and massive multiple …

Enabling proportionally-fair mobility management with reinforcement learning in 5G networks

A Prado, F Stöckeler, F Mehmeti… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility management in 5G is challenging, and at higher frequencies, a larger number of
cells is needed to provide similar coverage to that in 4G. Consequently, Base Stations (BSs) …

Enabling proportionally fair mobility management in 5G networks

A Prado, F Stöckeler, F Mehmeti… - 2023 IEEE 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility management in 5G, especially at higher frequencies, is challenging because the
signal quality fluctuates significantly due to blockages of Line of Sight (LoS), shadowing and …

Mobility management for small cells in 5g ultra-dense wireless network

RQ Shaddad, WGH Al-Barakani… - … on Emerging Smart …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the most anticipated approaches to overcoming the uncertainty of millimeter wave
(mmWave) network is the deployment of ultra-dense small-cells in future fifth generation …

[HTML][HTML] Handover management in beyond 5g hetnet topologies with unbalanced user distribution

A Hatipoglu, MA Yazici, M Basaran, M Ardanuc… - Digital Communications …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increase in user mobility and density in modern cellular networks increases the risk of
overloading certain base stations in popular locations such as shopping malls or stadiums …

Balanced5G-Fair Traffic Steering Technique using Data-Driven Learning in Beyond 5G Systems

A Thantharate, V Walunj, R Abhishek… - 2022 8th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid adoption of the fifth generation (5G) communication systems and increasing data
consumption per device is exponentially growing mobile data traffic. Traffic Steering (TS) …

User Classification and Traffic Steering in O-RAN

R Ntassah, GM Dell'area… - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The O-RAN architectural framework enables the application of AI/ML techniques for traffic
steering and load balancing. Indeed, an effective steering technique is crucial to avoiding …

Proportionally fair resource allocation considering geometric blockage modeling for improved mobility management in 5G

A Prado, D Gölitz, F Mehmeti, W Kellerer - Proceedings of the 18th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Line of Sight (LoS) blockages are a common occurrence in densely deployed cellular
networks, as is the case with 5G. This leads to a significant deterioration in the signal quality …

A Fuzzy-Logic-Based Load Balancing Scheme for a Satellite–Terrestrial Integrated Network

Y Gao, H Yang, X Wang, Y Chen, C Li, X Zhang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of communication systems, users are becoming more widely
distributed and require higher speed networks. A satellite–terrestrial integrated network …

Intelligent Load Balancing and Resource Allocation in O-RAN: A Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandit Approach

CH Lai, LH Shen, KT Feng - 2023 IEEE 34th Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture offers a cost-effective and scalable
solution for internet service providers to optimize their networks using machine learning …