Delay-Aware Satellite-Terrestrial Backhauling for Heterogeneous Small Cell Networks

Dynamic Radio Resource Management for Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Backhauling

Energy-Aware Probabilistic Epidemic Forwarding Method in Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Networks

Due to the increasing use of wireless communications, infrastructure-less networks such as Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) should be highly considered. DTN is most suitable where there is an intermittent connection between communicating nodes such as wireless mobile ad hoc network nodes. In general, a message sending node in DTN copies the message and transmits it to nodes which it encounters. A...

Load-aware Radio Access Selection in Heterogeneous Terrestrial Wireless Networks

Terrestrial wireless network technologies such as UMTS, WiMax and WLAN are used to provide network access for both voice and data services. In big cities the densely populated areas like town centres, shopping centres and train stations which have coverage of multiple wireless networks, a large number of mobile users may be connected to the more common UMTS, thereby creating an unbalanced load ...

Green Heterogeneous Small-Cell Networks

Heterogeneous small-cell networks (HetSNets) are considered as a standard part of the future mobile networks in which multiple low-power, low-cost user deployed base stations complement the existing macrocell infrastructure. This paper proposes an energy efficient deployment of the small-cells where the small-cell base stations are arranged around the edge of the reference macrocell and the dep...

D3.2 MAC layer mechanisms and adaptations for Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Backhauling