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.

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.