This document provides updates to IEEE Std 802.16's MIB for the MAC, PHY and asso- ciated management procedures in order to accommodate recent extensions to the standard.

IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems Draft Amendment: Management Information Base Extensions

The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis (Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling)

A smart city is an urban area that collects data using various electronic methods and sensors. Smart cities rely on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and aim to improve the quality of services by managing public resources and focusing on comfort, maintenance, and sustainability. The fifth generation (5G) of wireless mobile communication enables a new kind of communication network to connect everyone and everything. 5G will profoundly impact economies and societies as it will provide the necessary communication infrastructure required by various smart city applications. Intelligent Transporting System (ITS) is one of the many smart city applications that can be realized via 5G technology. The paper aims to discuss the impact and implications of 5G on ITS from various dimensions. Before this, the paper presents an overview of the technological context and the economic benefits of the 5G and how key vertical industries will be affected in a smart city, i.e., energy, healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment, and automotive and public transport. Afterward, 5G for ITS is introduced in more detail.

The Role of 5G Technologies in a Smart City: The Case for Intelligent Transportation System

Due to the rapid development of the fifth-generation (5G) applications, and increased demand for even faster communication networks, we expected to witness the birth of a new 6G technology within the next ten years. Many references suggested that the 6G wireless network standard may arrive around 2030. Therefore, this paper presents a critical analysis of 5G wireless networks’, significant technological limitations and reviews the anticipated challenges of the 6G communication networks. In this work, we have considered the applications of three of the highly demanding domains, namely: energy, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine learning. To this end, we present our vision on how the 6G communication networks should look like to support the applications of these domains. This work presents a thorough review of 370 papers on the application of energy, IoT and machine learning in 5G and 6G from three major libraries: Web of Science, ACM Digital Library, and IEEE Explore. The main contribution of this work is to provide a more comprehensive perspective, challenges, requirements, and context for potential work in the 6G communication standard.

From 5G to 6G Technology: Meets Energy, Internet-of-Things and Machine Learning: A Survey

A survey of energy efficiency in SDN: Software-based methods and optimization models

5G cellular networks are expected to be the key infrastructure to deliver the emerging services. These services bring new requirements and challenges that obstruct the desired goal of forthcoming networks. Mobile operators are rethinking their network design to provide more flexible, dynamic, cost-effective and intelligent solutions. This paper starts with describing the background of the 5G wireless networks then we give a deep insight into a set of 5G challenges and research opportunities for machine learning (ML) techniques to manage these challenges. The first part of the paper is devoted to overview the fifth-generation of cellular networks, explaining its requirements as well as its key technologies, their challenges and its forthcoming architecture. The second part is devoted to present a basic overview of ML techniques that are nowadays applied to cellular networks. The last part discusses the most important related works which propose ML solutions in order to overcome 5G challenges.

A survey of 5G network systems: challenges and machine learning approaches

Soft-defined networking (SDN) is a new approach that enables operators to easily manage all the network elements. In this paper, we address the problem of energy-aware routing in SDN-based carrier-grade Ethernet networks. Our approach is based on turning off network nodes and links to reduce energy consumption, while respecting the rule space capacity for each Openflow switch, and maintaining an allowable maximum link utilization. The problem of identifying the optimal set of network elements to be turned off is NP-hard. We first present an exact model based on an integer linear programming formulation for the problem. Then, we describe a set of first-fit heuristic algorithms suitable for large-sized networks. The exact and heuristic approaches are tested on SNDlib-based instances. Experimentations show the efficiency of both exact and heuristic methods for different network topologies. In particular, our heuristic algorithms are able to achieve a good balance between energy consumption, resource utilization, and network performance.

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Energy-Aware Routing in Carrier-Grade Ethernet Using SDN Approach

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Energy saving in carrier-grade networks

Comprehensive survey on self-organizing cellular network approaches applied to 5G networks

The institute of Electrical and Electronics IEEE 802.16 standard is a real revolution in wireless metropolitan area networks (wireless MANs) that enables high-speed access to data, video and voice services. The IEEE 802.16 is mainly aimed at providing broadband wireless access (BWA). Thus, it complements existing last mile wired networks such as cable modem and xDSL. Its main advantage is fast deployment which results in cost saving.

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Rihab Maaloul

Papers

A survey of 5G network systems: challenges and machine learning approaches

Energy-Aware Routing in Carrier-Grade Ethernet Using SDN Approach

Energy saving in carrier-grade networks

Comprehensive survey on self-organizing cellular network approaches applied to 5G networks

A Comprehensive Survey on WiMAX Scheduling Approaches