Machine-to-Machine Communications in Ultra-Dense Networks - A Survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1478-1503

  Chen, Shuyi ^a   Ma, Ruofei ^b   Chen, Hsiao Hwa ^c   Zhang, Hong ^a   Meng, Weixiao ^a   Liu, Jiamin ^d  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d China Academy of Telecommunication Technology   (China)

Author keywords

5G; Internet of Things; machine type communication; small cell; ultra dense network

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ACCESS CONTROL; AUTOMATION; INTERNET OF THINGS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DENSE NETWORK; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATIONS; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M); MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; SMALL CELLS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85029482354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2678518     Document Type: Review

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