Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Theory, Simulation and Deployment

This detailed, up-to-date introduction to heterogeneous cellular networking introduces its characteristic features, the technology underpinning it and the issues surrounding its use. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of core topics catalogue the most advanced, innovative technologies used in designing and deploying heterogeneous cellular networks, including system-level simulation and evaluation, self-organisation, range expansion, cooperative relaying, network MIMO, network coding and cognitive radio. Practical design considerations and engineering tradeoffs are also discussed in detail, including handover management, energy efficiency and interference management techniques. A range of real-world case studies, provided by industrial partners, illustrate the latest trends in heterogeneous cellular networks development. Written by leading figures from industry and academia, this is an invaluable resource for all researchers and practitioners working in the field of mobile communications.

1. Introduction Xiaoli Chu, David López-Pérez, Fredrik Gunnarsson and Yang Yang; 2. Radio propagation modeling Zhihua Lai, Guillaume Villemaud, Meiling Luo and Jie Zhang; 3. System-level simulation and evaluation models David López-Pérez and Mats Folke; 4. Access mechanisms Vikram Chandrasekhar, Tony Ekpenyong and Ralf Bendlin; 5. Interference modeling and spectrum allocation in two-tier networks Tony Q. S. Quek and Marios Kountouris; 6. Self-organization Fredrik Gunnarsson; 7. Dynamic interference management Ismail Güvenç, Fredrik Gunnarsson and David López-Pérez; 8. Uncoordinated femtocell deployments David López-Pérez, Xiaoli Chu and Holger Claussen; 9. Mobility and handover management Huaxia Chen, Shengyao Jin, Honglin Hu, Yang Yang, David López-Pérez, Ismail Guvenc and Xiaoli Chu; 10. Cooperative relaying Jing Xu, Jiang Wang and Ting Zhou; 11. Network MIMO techniques Gan Zheng, Yongming Huang and Kai-Kit Wong; 12. Network coding Haishi Ning and Cong Ling; 13. Cognitive radio Miguel López Benitez; 14. Energy-efficient architectures and techniques Weisi Guo, Min Chen and Athanasios V. Vasilakos.

Xiaoli Chu is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
David Lopez-Perez is a Research Engineer at the Autonomous Networks and System Research Department of Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Dublin, working on wireless networking and small cells.
Yang Yang is a Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology.
Fredrik Gunnarsson is a Senior Specialist in radio network self-organising networks at Ericsson Research, and an Associate Professor in the Division of Automatic Control, Linköping University, Sweden.