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Joint Deployment of Small Cells and Wireless Backhaul Links in Next-Generation Networks
Xiangxiang Xu, Walid Saad, Xiujun Zhang +2
In this paper, a novel approach for optimizing the joint deployment of small cell base stations and wireless backhaul links is proposed. This joint deployment scenario is cast as a…
Drone Small Cells in the Clouds: Design, Deployment and Performance Analysis
Mohammad Mozaffari, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis +1
The use of drone small cells (DSCs) which are aerial wireless base stations that can be mounted on flying devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is emerging as an effecti…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Underlaid Device-to-Device Communications: Performance and Tradeoffs
Mohammad Mozaffari, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis +1
In this paper, the deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying base station used to provide on the fly wireless communications to a given geographical area is analyz…
On the Tradeoff between Energy Harvesting and Caching in Wireless Networks
Akshay Kumar, Walid Saad
Self-powered, energy harvesting small cell base stations (SBS) are expected to be an integral part of next-generation wireless networks. However, due to uncertainties in harvested…
Context-Aware Small Cell Networks: How Social Metrics Improve Wireless Resource Allocation
Omid Semiari, Walid Saad, Stefan Valentin +2
In this paper, a novel approach for optimizing and managing resource allocation in wireless small cell networks (SCNs) with device-to-device (D2D) communication is proposed. The pr…
Matching Theory for Backhaul Management in Small Cell Networks with mmWave Capabilities
Omid Semiari, Walid Saad, Zaher Dawy +1
Designing cost-effective and scalable backhaul solutions is one of the main challenges for emerging wireless small cell networks (SCNs). In this regard, millimeter wave (mmW) commu…