Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

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.

• 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.