This Special Issue is intended to serve as a dissemination platform on the current advances on smalls cells technologies, including not only indoor residential femtocells but also rural, enterprise and picocell systems.
Edited by: Narcis Cardona
This Special Issue is intended to serve as a dissemination platform on the current advances on smalls cells technologies, including not only indoor residential femtocells but also rural, enterprise and picocell systems.
Edited by: Narcis Cardona
In this contribution, the spatial cross-correlation of composite channels in a distributed antenna system (DAS) is studied for the case that a nine-antenna DAS is deployed in an indoor environment. As few meas...
This article presents a distributed antenna system (DAS) architecture for small-cell base stations (BTSs), whereby cooperation between the DAS infrastructure and the BTS allows for an increase in performance c...
In today’s heterogeneous networking (HetNet) environments, where end users are provided with universal connectivity opportunities, femtocell deployments can become key players in the enhancement of critical pe...
When deploying two-tier LTE cellular networks with coexistence of macrocells and underlaid femtocells, the strategies of spectrum arrangement need to be investigated to efficiently utilize the scarce spectrum ...
The coexistence of heterogeneous networks within the same spectrum for enhancing the spectrum efficiency has attracted large interest lately in the research community. Furthermore, the research interest toward...
IEEE 802.16j multi-hop relay network systems provide the mobile wireless communication environment. In such network systems, the handover scanning procedure allows a mobile station (MS) to obtain the informati...
Future wireless networks are designed to cope with drastically increasing user demands. However, network resources reach the limits of their capacity to user requirements. Recently, femtocell networks have att...
Considering a symmetric Gaussian multi-way relay channel (MWRC) with K users, this work compares two transmission strategies, namely one-way relaying (OWR) and multi-way relaying (MWR), in terms of their achievab...