most citedSmall Cell Offloading Through Cooperative Communication in Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks

32 citations

5 papers

cs.IT2017★ 1 cited

A Normalization Model for Analyzing Multi-Tier Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

Siqing Xiong, Lijun Wang, Kyung Sup Kwak +4

Based on the distinguishing features of multi-tier millimeter wave (mmWave) networks such as different transmit powers, different directivity gains from directional beamforming ali…

cs.IT2017★ 25 cited

Interference Minimization in 5G Heterogeneous Networks

Tao Han, Guoqiang Mao, Qiang Li +2

In this paper, we focus on one of the representative 5G network scenarios, namely multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. User association is investigated in order to reduce th…

cs.NI2016★ 3 cited

Energy Saving of Base Stations Sleep Scheduling for Multi-Hop Vehicular Networks

Tao Han, Xiong Liu, Lijun Wang +3

This paper investigates the energy saving of base station (BS) deployed in a 1-D multi-hop vehicular network with sleep scheduling strategy. We consider cooperative BS scheduling s…

cs.NI2016★ 1 cited

On Energy Efficiency of the Nearest-Neighbor Cooperative Communication in Heterogeneous Networks

Tao Han, Yu Feng, Jiang Wang +3

In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional heterogeneous cellular network scenario consisting of one base station (BS) and some mobile stations (MSs) whose locations follow a Poi…

cs.NI2016★ 32 cited

Small Cell Offloading Through Cooperative Communication in Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks

Tao Han, Yujie Han, Xiaohu Ge +4

To meet the ever-growing demand for a higher communicating rate and better communication quality, more and more small cells are overlaid under the macro base station (MBS) tier, th…