Distributed Resource Allocation for Network Slicing Over Licensed and Unlicensed Bands

Energy-Efficient Use of Licensed and Unlicensed Bands in D2D-Assisted Cellular Network Systems

To date, the amount of research conducted regarding the subject of energy-efficient transmission in device-to-device (D2D)-assisted cellular network systems simultaneously utilizing both licensed and unlicensed bands is lacking. This topic is of substantial relevance to emerging 5th-generation (5G) cellular network systems, so the present study was conducted in order to address it in a practica...

A Hybrid Game Approach for Joint User Selection and Power Allocation over Unlicensed Spectrum Bands

This paper studies sharing of unlicensed spectrum bands between network operators by formulating it as a hybrid noncooperative game. A multi-user multi-channel downlink transmission is considered where the communication links are modeled as Gaussian parallel interference channels. Each transmitter, controlled by a competing operator, selects one user per channel from its registered users as wel...

Licensed and Unlicensed Military Production

A Dual-Band Femtocell Framework for Utilizing Both Licensed and Unlicensed Bands

To increase network capacity, cellular operators have been offloading macrocell traffic to small cells such as femtocells in the licensed band and WiFi hotspots in the unlicensed bands. However, there could be severe interference between macro and femto cells; while WiFi hotspots use the spectrum in a way less efficient than cellular networks. In order to address these problems and further impr...

A Harmful Interference Model for Unlicensed Device Operation in Licensed service Bands

Recent FCC proceedings have considered the notion of unlicensed device operation in licensed bands. Licensed users are concerned about harmful interference while unlicensed device manufacturers are concerned that harmful interference is an imprecise design concept. This paper addresses two elements to these concerns. First, it develops an explicit model of harmful interference to be included in...