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This paper presents a cooperative decentralized scheme for adjusting the Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration of a Small Cell Network (SCN) with a TDD air interface. The goal of the cooperative decentralized scheme is to make a more efficient use of common wireless resources, selecting convenient TDD-frame configurations to maximize a sum utility function that takes into account both individual...
This paper considers heterogeneous cellular networks, where cluster of small cells are deployed to create local hot spots inside the macro cell. In the past, most of the research in this topic has focused on mitigating inter cell interference; however, wireless backhaul has recently emerged as an urgent challenge to enable ubiquitous broadband wireless services at small cells. Hence, we propose a...
Data traffic demand in cellular networks continues to increase exponentially leading to high capital expenditure and operational costs such as electricity cost. Femtocells have been proposed as a solution to enhance network capacity without significantly increasing energy consumption and associated network deployment costs. In this paper, we analyze the network capacity and energy consumption aspects...
As radio interface approaches its practical capacity limit given limited spectrum resource, network architecture innovation/revolution would play a key role in boosting wireless communication system capacity and improving user experience. Deploying dense small cell networks overlaying the conventional macro cell networks is widely regarded as a key step towards network architecture revolution for...
Reducing operational costs and increasing energy efficiency are critical for mobile operators. One accepted way to tackle these issues is to make use of virtualization to share the same physical infrastructure among several virtual networks. However, sharing physical infrastructure presents a number of challenges, such as security issues, conflicting hardware control, and fair resource sharing. In...
In order to alleviate a mobile data explosion problem, WiFi offloading has been proposed. The key issue is how many access points (APs) are needed to accommodate a proper number of users per WiFi AP without severe performance degradation. Although WiFi networks can provide higher throughput as more and more APs are deployed, it may not be a reasonable solution if we consider an increase in the corresponding...
The primary contribution of this paper is the design of a novel architecture and mechanisms to enable voice services to be deployed over femtocells backhauled using a wireless mesh network. The architecture combines three mechanisms designed to improve Voice Over IP (VoIP) call quality and capacity in a deployment comprised of meshed femtocells backhauled over a WiFi-based Wireless Mesh Network (WMN),...
There is a need to develop energy-effcient adaptive systems for future telecommunication networks. While traffc varies at different times, the power consumption of the radio access network does not scale with it effectively. To make signif-cant energy savings, a dynamic deployment approach is required to allow the system to operate in an energy-effcient mode with respect to traffc load. By deploying...
In this paper, we propose a routing protocol for directional full-duplex wireless (D-FDW) to reduce hidden terminal problems in multi-hop networks. The proposed routing protocol is an on-demand detour routing protocol, which reduces number of cross points among traffic flows. In general, the throughput of a detour route degrades excessively due to increase of the number of hops between source and...
In an effort to support resource reservation signalling IETF introduced the Next Step In Signalling (NSIS) suite as a generic framework. However, it causes significant overhead on the network and is not well-suited for mobile users. This paper presents a new mechanism to reduce the NSIS signalling overhead and resource reservation latency imposed by the node's mobility in mobile networks. The proposed...
We are currently witnessing the increasing diffusion of new location-aware smartphones applications that make intensive use of positioning information, however, the widespread and pervasive GPS technology is gradually giving way to new or revised less power-hungry communication technologies able to guarantee almost the same accuracy. Within this general context, mainly motivated by the current green...
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