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In this article the cross-platform software and hardware solution for LTE key performance indicators optimization are developed. There are two important conflicting indicators are explained and optimized — LTE user's throughput and cell throughput versus different power control parameter settings such as nominal power per resource block and alpha for fractional power control. The results graphically...
The objective of this paper is to compare uplink (UL) performance with different antenna technologies when receiving Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) signal in field tests. The antenna configurations in use were a passive antenna system and an active antenna system (AAS). The radiation pattern can be controlled horizontally by changing its azimuth angle and vertically by changing the tilt angle of the antenna...
One of key technologies of 5th generation mobile networks is introducing small cells, such as femtocells and picocells, to supplement existing macrocells, and this results in high heterogeneity in mobile networks. Cell association, which selects a base station for each user to connect to, is a fundamental issue to optimize the performance and utilization of heterogeneous networks. This paper develops...
The core concept of Smart Grid (SG) is to enhance the level of intelligent management for power grid by the application of modern information, communication and other advanced technologies. With wide coverage, high reliability and large capacity, the Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) network is widely used in the SG wireless communication. However, SG is different from traditional cellular networks. Many...
In order to cope with the exponential growth of mobile traffic, mobile operators need to access more spectrum resources. LTE in unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U) has been proposed to extend the usual operation of LTE in licensed spectrum to cover also unlicensed spectrum. However, this extension poses significant challenges especially regarding the coexistence between LTE-U and legacy systems like Wi-Fi...
This paper presents a novel spectrum sensing method for femtocells in LTE systems. In order to improve the downlink throughput and reduce sensing energy consumption of the femtocells, the method first identifies the service types (voice service or data service) of the macrocell users, and then dynamically adjusts the spectrum sensing period to optimize the throughput of the femtocells under the condition...
MmWave communications, one of the cornerstones of future 5G mobile networks, are characterized at the same time by a potential multi-gigabit capacity and by a very dynamic channel, sensitive to blockage, wide fluctuations in the received signal quality, and possibly also sudden link disruption. While the performance of physical and MAC layer schemes that address these issues has been thoroughly investigated...
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is considered one of the essential elements of the Internet of Things (IoT) for enabling objects to communicate over potentially large distances. It is predicted to be the dominant source of traffic in 5G networks. To enable M2M communications on LTE networks, which is considered the main cellular access technology for M2M communications, several issues need...
Active queue management (AQM) is broadly accepted as the tool of choice for tackling bufferbloat (the accumulation of large queueing delays) in network buffers. CoDel and PIE are considered two of the most promising AQM schemes, but little has been done to adopt them in cellular networks, which are particularly plagued by bufferbloat. This is partly due to the lack of adequate evaluation of their...
To cope with increasing mobile data traffic, researchers are currently working on traffic offloading techniques for delivering data over unlicensed cellular bands. Current offloading schemes based on offloading data to Wi-Fi regardless Wi-Fi has sufficient throughput or not. Though, we propose a novel offloading technique based on the Remaining Throughput Scheme (RTS) for Wi-Fi selection. In our proposed...
Users located on the cell edge suffer from low data rates due to interference and poor reception. The Coordinated Multipoint technology targets this problem but it imposes overhead on the network, which can result in degradation of the Quality of Service. The Direct CSI feedback to Elected Coordination station architecture minimizes such overhead, resulting in improved data rates. Here, we analyze...
The number of communication networks' users using bandwidth-intensive application, such as video-streaming, video-conferencing, and multi-player gaming is on the rise. To handle a large number of such users, the bandwidth of cellular networks is becoming scarce. Nowadays, most user equipments (mobile phones, tablets, net-books, etc) support multiple radio access technologies (RATs), such as long-term...
In this paper, the spectrum sharing in both licensed and unlicensed bands under heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is investigated. A frame architecture of licensed-assisted access (LAA) in unlicensed bands is introduced by analyzing its statistical behavior of channel access opportunity. A multi-objective optimization problem is then designed for small cell to enhance energy efficiency by jointly maximizing...
This paper presents the performance results for a series of outdoor experiments conducted on a fifth generation (5G) mmW Mesh Transport system to show multiplexing of high throughput fronthaul (FH) and backhaul (BH) traffic over a long-range mmW link with exceedingly low latency. The EdgeLink™ millimeter wave (mmW) system was deployed as part of the European 5G-Crosshaul H2020 5G-PPP project where...
The effort to extend cellular technologies to unlicensed spectrum has been gaining high momentum. Listen-before-talk (LBT) is enforced in the regions such as European Union and Japan to harmonize coexistence of cellular and incumbent systems in unlicensed spectrum. In this paper, we study throughput optimal LBT transmission strategy for load based equipment (LBE). We find that the optimal rule is...
A key challenge for enabling Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks is the intolerably low access efficiency in the presence of massive access requests. To address this issue, a new analytical framework is proposed in this paper to optimize the random access performance of M2M communications in LTE networks. Both the maximum network throughput and the corresponding...
Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are constituted by different types of base stations (eNBs), the objective of Beyond LTE does dispose more Pico eNBs to meet the traffic demand of user equipment (UE). The LTE Time Division Duplexing (TDD) system had been defined 7 uplink-downlink sub-frame configurations. For instance, two neighboring eNBs of TDD system using different uplink-downlink configuration,...
Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology gives access to higher bandwidth and assures efficiency at network level for telecommunication operators, providing a reliable and continuous data traffic flow that allows data transmission at extremely high bit-rates. The aim of this paper is to evaluate LTE network performance in an actual urban environment, with emphasis on the downlink channel throughput. The...
With the fast growth of mobile data services, rich services deliver a brand new experience to end users, and also bring about new opportunities for operators. Some applications, such as vehicular and industrial applications, demand a level of reliability that wireless communication systems typically are not able to guarantee. This paper provides a framework that enables these applications to make...
4G/LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the state of the art wireless mobile broadband technology. It makes use of the OFDM technology to offer high speed and provides the system resources both in time and frequency domain. A scheduling algorithm running on the base station holds the allocation of these resources. In this paper, the performance of existing downlink scheduling algorithms has been investigated...
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