User association in 5G networks: A survey and an outlook

D Liu, L Wang, Y Chen, M Elkashlan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisioned to support the deluge of data traffic
with reduced energy consumption and improved quality of service (QoS) provision. To this …

A comprehensive survey on full-duplex communication: Current solutions, future trends, and open issues

M Mohammadi, Z Mobini… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Full-duplex (FD) communication is a potential game changer for future wireless networks. It
allows for simultaneous transmit and receive operations over the same frequency band, a …

Internet of things in the 5G era: Enablers, architecture, and business models

MR Palattella, M Dohler, A Grieco… - IEEE journal on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The IoT paradigm holds the promise to revolutionize the way we live and work by means of a
wealth of new services, based on seamless interactions between a large amount of …

A survey on 5G: The next generation of mobile communication

N Panwar, S Sharma, AK Singh - Physical Communication, 2016 - Elsevier
The rapidly increasing number of mobile devices, voluminous data, and higher data rate are
pushing to rethink the current generation of the cellular mobile communication. The next or …

Joint rate and SINR coverage analysis for decoupled uplink-downlink biased cell associations in HetNets

S Singh, X Zhang, JG Andrews - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Load balancing by proactively offloading users onto small and otherwise lightly-loaded cells
is critical for tap** the potential of dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) …

Downlink and uplink cell association with traditional macrocells and millimeter wave small cells

H Elshaer, MN Kulkarni, F Boccardi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) links will offer high capacity but are poor at penetrating into or
diffracting around solid objects. Thus, we consider a hybrid cellular network with traditional …

Why to decouple the uplink and downlink in cellular networks and how to do it

F Boccardi, J Andrews, H Elshaer… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ever since the inception of mobile telephony, the downlink and uplink of cellular networks
have been coupled, that is, mobile terminals have been constrained to associate with the …

Survey of strategies for switching off base stations in heterogeneous networks for greener 5G systems

F Han, S Zhao, L Zhang, J Wu - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For heterogeneous network, which has been viewed as one pioneering technology for
making cellular networks be evolved into 5G systems, reducing energy consumption by …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for joint decoupled user association and trajectory design in full-duplex multi-UAV networks

C Dai, K Zhu, E Hossain - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multi-UAV networks, the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) associations between a UAV and
a user equipment (UE) is typically coupled, which restricts each UE to associate to the same …

Optimizing user association and spectrum allocation in HetNets: A utility perspective

Y Lin, W Bao, W Yu, B Liang - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The joint user association and spectrum allocation problem is studied for multi-tier
heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in both downlink and uplink in the interference-limited …