The next generation 5G radio access network (RAN) system is believed to be a true world
wide wireless web (WWWW). This is because such system will seamlessly and ubiquitously …

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 …

Wireless content caching in small cell networks (SCNs) has recently been considered as an
efficient way to reduce the data traffic and the energy consumption of the backhaul in …

A cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) is a network architecture that holds the promise
of meeting the explosive growth of mobile data traffic. In this architecture, all the baseband …

This paper studies the energy efficiency of the cloud radio access network (C-RAN),
specifically focusing on two fundamental and different downlink transmission strategies …

The landscape toward 5G wireless communication is currently unclear, and, despite the
efforts of academia and industry in evolving traditional cellular networks, the enabling …

Caching popular contents at base stations (BSs) can reduce the backhaul cost and improve
the network throughput. Yet whether locally caching at the BSs can improve the energy …

Small cell networks (SCNs) are envisaged as a key technology enabling the fifth-generation
(5G) wireless communication system to address the challenge of rising mobile data demand …

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) concept, in which densely deployed access points
(APs) are empowered by cloud computing to cooperatively support mobile users (MUs), to …

Nowadays energy crisis and global warming problems are hanging over everyone's head,
urging much research work on energy saving. In the ICT industry, which is becoming a major …