This paper presents a comprehensive cognitive management framework for spectrum selection in cognitive radio networks. The framework uses a belief vector concept as a means to predict the interference affecting the different ...

To increase cognitive radio (CR) operation efficiency, there has been an interest in enhancing the awareness level of spectrum utilization. In this context, this paper builds a new cognitive management functional architecture ...

Self-Organising Networks (SON) concept is seen as a way to reduce costs by automating functionalities such as network optimisation usually performed manually with extensive human work time. This paper provides a general ...

The use of multi-connectivity has become a useful tool to manage the traffic in heterogeneous cellular network deployments, since it allows a device to be simultaneously connected to multiple cells. The proper exploitation ...

In order to increase CRs (Cognitive Radios) operation efficiency, there has been an interest in increasing awareness level about spectrum utilisation. In this respect, this paper proposes a new fittingness factor concept ...

5G is envisioned to simultaneously provide diverse service types with heterogeneous needs under very different application scenarios and business models. Therefore, network slicing is included as a key feature of the 5G ...

Recently, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications for future cellular systems have attracted considerable attention due to their potential benefits such as improved system capacity, spectral efficiency or delay reduction, ...

Network slicing is included as a key feature of the 5G architecture in order to simultaneously support diverse service types with heterogeneous requirements. The realization of network slicing in the Radio Access Network ...

In this work the feasibility of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) in the context of next generation multicell Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) networks is studied. ...