Maria João Nicolau Pinto's scientific contributions
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... Due to their lower coverage area, small cells present a major difficulty for mobile nodes, resulting in frequent handovers and connectivity failures [13], [14]. Therefore, such heterogeneous networks (HetNets), which are made up of small cells like pico and femto base stations, have the ability to expand system capacity and offer reliable high-rate communication services [15]. However, as users must transfer radio links between cells in 5G HetNet, mobility management is a significant challenge. ...
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