Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

Over the past few years, the next generation of vehicular networks is envisioned to play an
essential part in autonomous driving, traffic management, and infotainment applications. The …

This paper surveys the recent findings in the area of energy efficient radio resource
management in cellular networks. The primary objective is to identify and evaluate the key …

Network densification is regarded as one of the important ingredients to increase capacity
for next generation mobile communication networks. However, it also leads to mobility …

With the recent demand of sustainable and green smart cities, we are witnessing a growing
research initiative toward the development of efficient energy‐aware 5G/Wifi‐6 wireless …

Femtocells will play a key role for the wide adoption of the LTE-Advanced system, as they
bring the access network closer to the end user in a cost-effective manner. This disruptive …

In next generation 5G intra-macrocell deployment due to the high number of small cells
existing in the network, one of the main concerns is the increased handover rate, followed by …

ns-3 is an open-source network simulator with support for simulating 3GPP LTE cellular
network. This paper presents three extensions to the LTE module of ns-3, enhancing its …

Due to the high traffic demand in cellular networks, femtocells are considered as one
promising solution for providing cellular traffic offloading and better indoor coverage …

To enhance the performance of a heterogeneous network, where many small cells are
deployed in a macro cell, we consider two technical challenges. First, seamless handover …