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To facilitate content delivery to mobile users, we propose a content caching and distribution framework for the heterogeneous OFDM networks, where a library of files available at the macro base station (MBS) can be distributively cached in multiple serving nodes (SNs). SNs are capable of both receiving unstored files from MBS and transmitting files to the associated users. For a given group of file...
The worldwide mobile traffic is growing rapidly and more than 90% of the internet traffic relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol, which is known to have a poor performance over unreliable wireless networks. One of the promising TCP enhancement mechanisms that are being considered by the wireless network operators is the Split-TCP. It is also quite well known that the Split-TCP...
To address the challenge of unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic, ultra-dense network deployment is a cost efficient solution to offload the traffic over some small cells. The overlapped coverage areas of small cells create more than one candidate access points for one mobile station. Signal strength based user association in IEEE 802.11 results in a significantly unbalanced load distribution...
In this paper, we investigate the influence of intra-and inter-cell mobility of users on performance of 4G/5G cellular networks, such as LTE and LTE-A. To this end, we develop a multi-class PS queue model that captures mobility of users between zones of a cell and between cells, through a simple mobility model, that is decoupled from the cell model itself, enabling to directly apply the approach to...
The smart grid is a modern electricity grid that uses wireless technologies to control and supervise the substation and the electricity generation and consumption sides. Several wireless technologies can be used for smart grid communication such as Long-Term evolution (LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). However, LTE is the most compatible network for the smart grid because...
In the present day wireless communication networks, the main objective is to support different multimedia services with various requirements of Quality of Services and varying bandwidth requirements. The key role in effective resource management of WiMAX network is to enhance the performance of network. Gateway (GW) relocation of Access Service Network (ASN) includes changing the Anchor Point (AP)...
Pakistan is a rapidly growing cellular market with a growth rate of 185 % in number of mobile broadband users during 2014-16 and over 15.75 million mobile broadband users [4]. The exponential increase in broadband penetration demands investigation of mobile broadband performance from an end user perspective. To the best of our knowledge, no extensive study exists to document mobile broadband services...
Energy consumption's increasing importance in scientific computing has driven an interest in developing energy efficient high performance systems. Energy constraints of mobile computing has motivated the design and evolution of low-power computing systems capable of supporting a variety of compute-intensive user interfaces and applications. Others have observed the evolution of mobile devices to also...
High downlink and uplink speeds are achievable with the aid of LTE. Providing this technology in real life requires scheduling algorithms that will effect the concepts such as throughput and fairness. In this paper some new averaging methods for proportional fair algorithm are proposed. Simulation results show that arithmetic mean method can increase spectral efficiency and fairness performance of...
The LTE network is usually deployed with adjacent cells using the same frequency band, which significantly improves the frequency utilization efficiency. However, the cell-edge users may suffer throughput loss due to severe inter-cell interference (ICI). With the rapid grow of user terminals in LTE networks, ICI levels are rising and ICI becoming the dominant factor of the network capacity. Coordinated...
In this paper, QoS characteristics such as TCP throughput is investigated for densely deployed mobile wireless LANs (WLANs). Factors affecting throughput characteristics are discussed and evaluated by using real machines such as smartphones and portable APs. In IEEE 802.11 WLANs, a rate adaptation mechanism controls the transmission rate and one of the dominant factors for QoS. In order to understand...
In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications such as environment monitoring, building monitoring, etc., sensor nodes collect data and send it to the base stations or sinks for analysis. As the networks grow in scale, it necessitates using multiple sinks in the network. In here, throughput capacity and the average delay of WSN with multiple sinks, which are two main quantity of interest, has been...
In mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), nodes use hello messages to detect neighbor nodes and to maintain link connectivity. In a typical MANET routing, a node broadcasts hello messages at a fixed interval. However, a fixed hello interval causes a long delay of neighbor discovery (too long hello intervals) or a more bandwidth waste by unnecessary protocol overhead (too short hello intervals). In this...
To address the mobile data growth challenges, 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, mainly at 5 GHz band due to its wide spectrum availability. However, this extension poses significant challenges especially regarding the coexistence between...
In-network guidance for off-path caching, called Breadcrumbs, has been proposed for cache networks. In Breadcrumbs, during content download, a router holds a pointer, breadcrumb, which denotes the latest download direction. When a content request occasionally encounters a breadcrumb along its default-path to the repository, location-based routing is switched to hop-by-hop breadcrumb-based routing...
This work motivates and details the concept of QoE-aware sustainable throughput in the area of video streaming. Sustainable throughput serves as a mean to compare video streaming solutions in terms of Quality of Experience (QoE) and energy efficiency (EE). It builds upon the QoE Provisioning-Delivery Hysteresis (PDH) and denotes the maximal throughput at which QoE deteriorations can be kept below...
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are collections of self-organizing mobile nodes with dynamic topologies and does not have any centralized control in the network. MANET have no clear way of defense mechanism to protect network from security threats, thereby making this network accessible to both legitimate node and authorized node. The absence of centralized administration and openness make MANETs...
The mobile devices are becoming the important part in our everyday life. These are now one of the basic needs of our daily life. These devices are used to share the data of interest with one another. Data may be in the form of picture or video clip, news etc. But sometimes, data cannot reach to the user who is interested, because of delaying of messages. Sometimes nodes do not want to loose their...
Machine-Type-Communication (MTC), also known as Machine to Machine (M2M) communication is one of the emerging technologies in mobile broadband networks such as LTE (Long Term Evolution) known as a key technology for the future. Several problems occur in the presence of massive M2M communications, such as the congestion at the radio access because of simultaneous signals or data messages sent from...
Cognitive radio (CR) network technology is widely used as a approach to the solve the scarce radio spectrum by allowing the unlicensed users to access the licensed spectrum. Since in the CR network, the licensed users are easily be affected by the introduce of the unlicensed user, we have to avoid to bring the interference to the licensed users when the unlicensed users try to transmit the data on...
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