The phenomenal growth of mobile data demand has brought about increasing scarcity in
available radio spectrum. Meanwhile, mobile customers pay more attention to their own …

One critical challenge with wireless data service provisioning is how to exploit the limited
spectrum resources efficiently to support the dramatically growing traffic. To address this …

The use of the unlicensed spectrum by LTE networks (LTE-U or LAA-LTE) is being
considered by mobile operators in order to satisfy increasing traffic demands and to make …

Driven by the demand for more radio spectrum resources, mobile operators are looking to
exploit the unlicensed spectrum as a complement to the licensed spectrum. LTE-unlicensed …

LAA is a new operation mode of LTE in the unlicensed spectrum, which will be featured in
LTE Release 13. Under LAA, licensed carriers will be aggregated with unlicensed carriers in …

Traffic offloading and resource sharing are two common methods for delivering cellular data
traffic over unlicensed bands. In this paper, we first develop a hybrid method to take full …

Fueled by the increasing popularity of handheld mobile devices with powerful data
processing capabilities, the wireless industry is witnessing an avalanche of mobile traffic …

Uplink-downlink decoupling in which users can be associated to different base stations in
the uplink and downlink of heterogeneous small cell networks (SCNs) has attracted …

To facilitate the deployment of private industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT), applying long-term-
evolution (LTE) over unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U) is a promising technology, which can …

Licensed-assisted access (LAA) is a new operation mode of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in
the unlicensed spectrum currently under study in the 3GPP standardization forum. In order to …