The increasing consumption of multimedia services and the demand of high-quality services
from customers has triggered a fundamental change in how we administer networks in terms …

The transformation of mobile networks towards fifth generation (5G) is considered an
unprecedented revolution when compared to the previous generations, mainly because of …

Existing radio access networks (RANs) allow only for very limited sharing of the
communication and computation resources among wireless operators and heterogeneous …

Packet-switched fronthaul networks are often designed following the rule that the worst-case
network delay must be below a given target end-to-end network latency budget. However …

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technologies bring important improvements in terms of
network bandwidth, latency, and use of context information and critical for services like …

The next generation wireless cellular network is aimed to address the demands of users and
emerging use cases set by industries and academia for beyond 2020. Hence, The next …

With the emergence of small cell networks and fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, the
backhaul becomes increasingly complex. This study addresses the problem of how a central …

Future wireless networks must provide ever higher data rates. The available bandwidth
increases roughly linearly as we increase the carrier frequency, but the range shrinks …

The expected growth in carried traffic and the added complexity of different deployment
approaches (distributed vs. centralized), showing different requirements, make transport …

Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture claims to reduce capital costs and
facilitate the implementation of multi-site coordination mechanisms. This paper studies the …