The IEEE 802.11ah standard can provide cost-effective Internet access to a large number of devices in newly evolving Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) networks. To handle high collision probability ...

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communications are evolving as a potential and promising technology to address the ever increasing mobile data rate requirements. This paper addresses fair scheduling in directional antenna based ...

Multibeam antenna arrays (MBAAs) have the capability to improve the capacity of a wireless network by facilitating simultaneous transmissions to multiple users. However, in practical deployments of wireless personal or ...

The IEEE 802.11ah standard has been developed to provide Internet access to a large number of devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) networks. To handle contention from a large number of ...

In this paper, a distributed base station cooperation-based handover management method is proposed for WiMAX Point-to-Multi-Point networks to provide quality of service to handover nodes. Moreover, a delay reduction method ...

IEEE 802.16j mobile multihop relay (MMR) networks are developed to enhance the coverage area and the throughput of IEEE 802.16 networks. Path selection is an important research problem related to these networks. In the ...

Directional antennas provide many advantages such as higher gain, increased capacity, longer range, and reduced interference by concentrating radio signal energy in one direction. This paper addresses concurrent transmission ...