Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, recent years have seen
a paradigm shift in mobile computing, from the centralized mobile cloud computing toward …

Today's 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 100 …

Driven by the emergence of new compute-intensive applications and the vision of the
Internet of Things (IoT), it is foreseen that the emerging 5G network will face an …

Merging mobile edge computing (MEC) functionality with the dense deployment of base
stations (BSs) provides enormous benefits such as a real proximity, low latency access to …

To satisfy the high data demands in future cellular networks, an ultra-densification approach
is introduced to shrink the coverage of base station (BS) and improve the frequency reuse …

With the proliferation of connected devices and emerging data-hungry applications, the
volume of mobile data traffic is predicted to have a 1000-fold growth by the year 2020. To …

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, recent years have seen
a paradigm shift in mobile computing, from the centralized Mobile Cloud Computing towards …

To address the vast variety of user requirements, applications, and channel conditions,
flexibility support is strongly highlighted for 5G radio access technologies (RATs). For this …

By deploying additional low power nodes (LPNs) within the coverage area of traditional high
power nodes (HPNs) and bringing them closer to users, underlay heterogeneous networks …

The fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G (B5G) networks offer ultra-low latencies, higher
reliability, scalability, data rates and capacities to support applications such as vehicular …