Ultra-Dense Networks: A Survey

Kamel, Mahmoud; Hamouda, Walaa; Youssef, Amr M.

doi:10.1109/comst.2016.2571730

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“…Compared with current wireless technologies, the energy efficiency (measured in b/J) of the 5G network may need to be improved by a factor of 1000 [4,7,34,110,217]. High energy efficiency is important in case of ticketing-and in some cases of tracking-based activities (e.g., smart industry [205] or implantable medical devices [35]).…”

Section: Energy Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[34,80] Enhanced wireless backhaul (1) TDD multi-flow coordination schemes to avoid bottlenecks in the downlink backhaul; (2) Backhaul aware association in ultra-dense deployment; (3) reliability and security of the backhaul. [34,88,198] Moving network …”

Section: Access Architecture Related Radio Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multi-RAT is defined as the capability of a mobile network to support multiple radio access technology with seamless interworking among them [229]. When deployed in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), with traffic offloading among different RATs, multi-RAT improves capacity [230], supports better communication rates [34,[117][118][119]231,232], better energy efficiency [34,[117][118][119]231,232], and ensures seamless connectivity with higher QoS [230]. In designing a heterogeneous RAT, researches are finding solutions for cell-association and traffic-offloading algorithms [217].…”

Section: Wide and Flexible Bandwidth Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With denser cell deployment come significant challenges in the design of a high-performance backhauling system for RAN and the impact of backhaul on radio resource management (RRM) [70]. However, there are in existence many interesting topics to be further investigated which can be grouped around several problem areas [34]: user association, backhauling, interference management, energy efficiency, and propagation modelling.…”

Section: Access Architecture Related Radio Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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IoT’s Tiny Steps towards 5G: Telco’s Perspective

Cero¹,

Husić

Baraković

2017

Symmetry

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Abstract:The numerous and diverse applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) have the potential to change all areas of daily life of individuals, businesses, and society as a whole. The vision of a pervasive IoT spans a wide range of application domains and addresses the enabling technologies needed to meet the performance requirements of various IoT applications. In order to accomplish this vision, this paper aims to provide an analysis of literature in order to propose a new classification of IoT applications, specify and prioritize performance requirements of such IoT application classes, and give an insight into state-of-the-art technologies used to meet these requirements, all from telco's perspective. A deep and comprehensive understanding of the scope and classification of IoT applications is an essential precondition for determining their performance requirements with the overall goal of defining the enabling technologies towards fifth generation (5G) networks, while avoiding over-specification and high costs. Given the fact that this paper presents an overview of current research for the given topic, it also targets the research community and other stakeholders interested in this contemporary and attractive field for the purpose of recognizing research gaps and recommending new research directions.

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Section: Energy Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Access Architecture Related Radio Technologiesmentioning

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Section: Wide and Flexible Bandwidth Technologymentioning

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Section: Access Architecture Related Radio Technologymentioning

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IoT’s Tiny Steps towards 5G: Telco’s Perspective

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Husić

Baraković

2017

Symmetry

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“…Hence the APs are allocated more densely for increasing the capacity [1] [2]. Then, there is always an access point (AP) in the close proximity of the user equipment (UE) [3]- [5]. However, in such ultra dense networks (UDNs), the beneficial cooperation of APs relying on their joint transmission strategy is required for mitigating the deleterious effects of interference.…”

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Graph-Based Joint User-Centric Overlapped Clustering and Resource Allocation in Ultradense Networks

Lin

Zhang

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.

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Abstract-With the increase of access point (AP) density and the exponential growth of mobile devices supported by ultra dense networks (UDNs), user-centric overlapped clustering relying on AP cooperation is becoming a promising design principle for guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) required by each UE. This ambitious goal can be achieved by the joint design of user-centric overlapped clustering and resource allocation. In this context, both the traffic-load balancing and the limited availability of orthogonal resource blocks (RBs) have to be carefully considered in UDNs. To tackle these challenges, we formulate a joint user-centric overlapped clustering and resource allocation problem with the goal of maximizing the system's spectral efficiency (SE). To efficiently solve this problem, it is decoupled into two subproblems, which can be solved independently with the aid of our graph-theoretical framework. We first develop a novel distributed three-stage user-centric clustering solution, which is aware of the APs' traffic-loads. Then, based on the overlapped clusters constructed, we propose a novel two-stage graph-based user-centric resource allocation scheme for mitigating the resultant inter-cluster interference, despite the limited availability of orthogonal RBs. Our numerical results confirm the benefits of the proposed framework and show that it outperforms the benchmark solutions in terms of both its per area aggregated user rate (PAAR) and user rate.

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