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most citedEfficient Deployment of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Optimal Wireless Coverage

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cs.NI2015★ 68 cited

Dynamic Clustering and ON/OFF Strategies for Wireless Small Cell Networks

Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad +1

In this paper, a novel cluster-based approach for maximizing the energy efficiency of wireless small cell networks is proposed. A dynamic mechanism is proposed to group locally-cou…

cs.IT2015

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…

cs.IT2015★ 1.1k cited

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…

cs.IT2015

Modeling and Analysis of Content Caching in Wireless Small Cell Networks

Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan, Mehdi Bennis, Pedro H. J. Nardelli +1

Network densification with small cell base stations is a promising solution to satisfy future data traffic demands. However, increasing small cell base station density alone does n…

cs.IT2015★ 108 cited

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…

cs.NI2015★ 6 cited

Context-Aware Mobility Management in HetNets: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Meryem Simsek, Mehdi Bennis, Ismail Güvenc

The use of small cell deployments in heterogeneous network (HetNet) environments is expected to be a key feature of 4G networks and beyond, and essential for providing higher user…