Design and Deployment of Small Cell Networks

This comprehensive resource covers everything you need to know about small cell networks, from design, to analysis, optimization and deployment. Detailing fundamental concepts as well as more advanced topics, and describing emerging trends, challenges and recent research results, this book explains how you can improve performance, decision making, resource management, and energy efficiency in next generation wireless networks. Key topics covered include green small cell networks and associated trade-offs, optimized design and performance analysis, backhauling and traffic overloading, context-aware self-organizing networks, deployment strategies and mobility management in large scale HetNets. Written by leading experts in academia and industry and including tools and techniques for small cell network design and deployment, this is an ideal resource for graduate students, researchers and industry practitioners working in communications and networking.

1. Mobility performance optimization for 3GPP LTE HetNets Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Jialin Zou, Subramanian Vasudevan and Sudeep Palat; 2. Design and performance analysis of multi-radio small cell networks Nageen Himayat, Shu-ping Yeh, Shilpa Talwar, Mikhail Gerasimenko, Sergey Andreev and Yevgeni Koucheryavy; 3. Dynamic TDD small cell management Cheng-Chih Chao, Yi-Ting Lin and Hung-Yu Wei; 4. 3GPP RAN standards for small cells Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu and Anthony C. K. Soong; 5. Dense networks of small cells Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao and Anthony C. K. Soong; 6. Traffic offloading scenarios for heterogeneous networks Adrian Kliks, Nikos Dimitriou, Andreas Zalonis and Oliver Holland; 7. Required number of small-cell access points in heterogeneous wireless networks S. Alireza Banani, Andrew Eckford and Raviraj Adve; 8. Small cell deployments: system scenarios, performance and analysis Mark C. Reed and Jackson Wang; 9. Temporary cognitive small cell networks for rapid and emergency deployments Akram Al-Hourani, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan and Senthuran Arunthavanathan; 10. Long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE-advanced activities in small cell networks Qi Jiang, Jinsong Wu, Lu Zhang and Shengjie Zhao; 11. Game theory and learning techniques for self-organization in small cell networks Prabodini Semasinghe, Kun Zhu, Ekram Hossain and Alagan Anpalagan; 12. Energy efficient strategies with BS sleep mode in green small cell networks Hong Zhang and Jun Cai; 13. Mobility management in small cell heterogeneous networks Peter Legg and Xavier Gelabert; 14. The art of deploying small cells: field trial experiments, system design, performance prediction and deployment feasibility Doru Calin, Aliye Ozge Kaya, Amine Abouliatim, Gonçalo Ferrada and Ionel Petrut; 15. Centralized self-optimization of interference management in LTE-A HetNets Yasir Khan, Berna Sayrac and Eric Moulines; 16. Self organized ICIC for SCN Lorenza Giupponi, Ali Imran and Ana Maria Galindo; 17. Large scale deployment and scalability Iris Barcia, Simon Chapman and Chris Beale; 18. Energy efficient heterogeneous networks Y. Qi, M. A. Imran, M. Z. Shakir and K. A. Qaraqe; 19. Time and frequency domain e-ICIC with single and multiflow carrier aggregation in HetNets Meryem Simsek, Mehdi Bennis and Ismail Guvenc.

Alagan Anpalagan is Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, where he is the recipient of the Dean's Teaching Award, Faculty Scholastic, Research and Creativity Award, and Faculty Service Award. He is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Mehdi Bennis is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland. Previously he worked as a research engineer at IMRA-EUROPE and was a visiting researcher at the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC.
Rath Vannithamby leads a team responsible for 5G and Internet of Things research at Intel Labs and was previously a researcher at Ericsson. He is currently a Senior Member of the IEEE and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.