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Recently an extensive deployment of small cell Networks (SCNs) called two tier-heterogeneous networks have been proposed, especially for dense urban zone. Therefore, Macro Cell Networks containing a hyper density of SCNs distributed randomly within it will emerge the field. The benefits of two tier Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) are realized through the traffic flooding via small cells. To enhance...
Due to the ubiquitous presence of cellular networks and their exemplary success, they have been pushed forward to provide connectivity for Internet-of-things (IoT) applications with mass deployments of sensors and machines. Nevertheless, existing transmission protocols, e.g., orthogonal allocation or spectrum sharing, can be detrimental for both existing cellular users and IoT devices due to increased...
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a key enabling technology for 5G cellular systems. However, due to mmWave propagation characteristics, link length for very high rates is limited and will likely necessitate the use of relay nodes for longer-range ultra-high-speed backhaul communications. This paper investigates relay selection and scheduling to support high end-to-end throughput in mmWave...
Due to the new characteristics of ultra-dense networks (UDN), such as high dense deployment of wireless access points (APs), complicated handover signaling processes and irregular coverage, how to achieve mobility support and reduce user's interrupt ratio remain a difficult problem. To address these issues, based on the presented user-centric APs clustering (UCC) network architecture in UDN, a UCC...
The Phantom cell concept is a solution for high-traffic outdoor environments that can also support good mobility and connectivity in ultra-dense network. In a phantom cells network, a centralized Macrocell controls all phantom cells within its coverage area and the C-Plane and U-Plane are split. Many issues need to be addressed for this architecture including radio resources allocation and cross/co...
The future 5G communication will bring about the surge of traffic. The traffic of cellular network has great non-uniformity and volatility in space and time, which brings opportunities and challenges to the planning and management of cellular network. The energy consumption on base station (BS) accounts for more than 50% of the total energy consumption of the cellular network. Due to the space-time...
In this paper, we investigate the propagation coupling loss (captures all sources of attenuation between serving cell and mobile station (MS)) and geometry metric (GM) (downlink average signal-to-interference plus noise ratio) performance of mmWave cellular networks for outdoor and indoor MSs, considering urban micro (UMi) environments. Based on these studies, we identify effective mmWave frequency...
With the advancing 5G technology of base stations mounted on aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, the issue of coverage area, capacity and inter-cell interference is assuming higher importance for the cellular networks. In this paper, we follow a deterministic approach to analyze these problems using the data obtained from a commercial software for wireless electromagnetic wave propagation...
In this paper, a new transceiver architecture for K-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) broadcast channels (BCs) based on linear and non-linear mixture reception is proposed as an alternative to conventional fully linear zero-forcing (ZF) downlink beamforming. In the new transceiver architecture, two closely-aligned users are paired as a group, and superposition coding and non-linear successive...
This paper describes the software architecture and the implementation of a fully operational testbed that demonstrates the benefits of flexible, dynamic resource allocation with virtualized LTE-A nodes. The testbed embodies and specializes the general software architecture devised within the Flex5Gware EU project, and focuses on two intelligent programs: the first one is a Global Scheduler, that coordinates...
Automotive industry will be greatly benefited by the advent of 5G Networking and the huge boost in performance and coverage it will support. Road safety and traffic efficiency services will be significantly upgraded through seamlessly interconnected devices, while latency decrease will most likely allow autonomous driving to become a commodity, available to everyone. This technology will have a huge...
Long Term Evolution (LTE), designed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to increase the capacity of radio mobile communications, has been endorsed by multiple public protection and disaster relief organizations as a next generation technology for Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) networks, which convey business and mission critical communications. One of the main services of PMR is the group...
This paper proposes a novel beam aggregation scheme for millimeter wave (mm-Wave) system under hybrid beamforming architecture, assuming one user equipment (UE) equipped with multiple antenna panels receives distinct beams from multiple transmission points (TPs) simultaneously. Further, system framework including channel state information (CSI) feedback scheme and scheduling algorithm is investigated...
In distributed massive multi-input multi-output (DM-MIMO) system, the number of users simultaneously served is greatly restricted if the pilots allocated for users are orthogonal. In this paper, a dynamic pilot reuse strategy within a single cell DM-MIMO system is proposed in order to reduce pilot overhead. The reuse in this strategy is applied so that maximum average sum-rate is satisfied within...
This paper presents an application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) broadcast precoding. The ASIP is designed for a base station (BS) with four antennas to perform user scheduling and precoding. Transport triggered architecture (TTA) is used as the processor template and high level language is used to program the ASIP. Several special...
The conventional LTE coverage has an approximately 100 km cell range limit defined in 3GPP specification. The LTE coverage for ocean area should be extended beyond the 3GPP specification due to an emergency call and the advent of safety IoT (Internet of Things) device. In this paper, we propose a novel coverage expansion technology called OTHAD (Over The Horizontal Antenna Distribution) and inter-cell...
The ever increasing demand for Internet traffic, storage and processing requires an ever increasing amount of hardware resources. In addition to this, infrastructure providers over-provision system architectures to serve users at peak times without performance delays. Over-provisioning leads to underutilization and thus to unnecessary power consumption. Therefore, there is a need for workload management...
When different technologies use the same frequency bands in close proximity, the resulting interference typically results in performance degradation. Coexistence methods exist, but these are often technology specific and requiring technology specific interference detection methods. To remove the root cause of the performance degradation, devices should be able to negotiate medium access even when...
This paper focuses on resource allocation in heterogeneous Ultra Dense small-cell Networks (UDNs), in which massive overlaid small cells are under the coverage of a macro cell. In UDN, both co-tier and cross-tier interference need to be taken into account. When increasing the deployment density of Small-cell Base Stations (SBSs) and the unreasonable energy usage, it results in serious interference...
Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) which include macrocells with short range small cells proved a better coverage and higher user data rates compared to classical networks. Using the same spectrum as the macrocells, small cells would allow increased spatial reuse of bandwidth. In industrialized countries, the deployment of new small cells by another actor (tier) to cover the outage improves the service...
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