The increasing number of mobile users has given impetus to the demand for high data rate
proximity services. The fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems promise to improve the …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication proposes a new epitome in mobile networking to
avail data exchange between physically proximate devices. The exploitation of D2D …

Ensuring ultrareliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) for 5G wireless networks
and beyond is of capital importance and is currently receiving tremendous attention in …

Edge computing is an emerging concept based on distributed computing, storage, and
control services closer to end network nodes. Edge computing lies at the heart of the fifth …

Recently, due to the increasing popularity of enjoying various multimedia services on mobile
devices (eg, smartphones, ipads, and electronic tablets), the generated mobile data traffic …

Soaring capacity and coverage demands dictate that future cellular networks need to
migrate soon toward ultra-dense networks. However, network densification comes with a …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is continuously evolving and engulfing a wide
diversity of proximate services and applications, which is considered as one of the key …

Wireless data traffic is growing unprecedentedly and it may impede network performance by
consuming an ever-greater amount of bandwidth. With the advancement in technology there …

To guarantee the ubiquitous and fully autonomous Internet connections in our daily life, the
new technical challenges of mobile communications lie on the efficient utilization of resource …

Communications in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) are subject to performance
degradation as results of channel fading and intermittent network connectivity. The emerging …