In this survey paper, we first provide insights on the evolution of radio access networks
(RANs) through investigating the existing paradigms and future trends towards 6G. We then …

The diverse service requirements coming with the advent of sophisticated applications as
well as a large number of connected devices demand for revolutionary changes in the …

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication
technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we …

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is invoked for enhancing the energy harvesting
performance of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) aided …

In this paper, we consider a platform of flying mobile edge computing (F-MEC), where
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as equipment providing computation resource, and …

For the energy-efficient deployment of cell-free massive MIMO functionality in a practical
wireless network, the end-to-end (from radio site to the cloud) energy-aware operation is …

For the future 6G-enabled massive Internet of Things (mIoT), how to effectively manage
spectrum resources to support huge data traffic under the large-scale overlap** caused by …

This article investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multicell wireless networks,
where an IRS is deployed to assist the joint processing coordinated multipoint (JP-CoMP) …

In cognitive radio (CR) systems, the spectrum efficiency (SE) of the secondary users (SUs) is
always limited by the interference temperature constraint imposed on the primary users …

Mobile network traffic is increasing and so is the energy consumption. The Radio Access
Network (RAN) part is responsible for the largest share of the mobile network energy …