Cooperative MIMO-OFDM cellular system with soft handover between distributed base station antennas

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1428-1440

  Tolli, Antti ^a   Codreanu, Marian ^a   Juntti, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive multiuser MIMO OFDM; Beamforming; Cellular network; Convex optimization; Geometric programming; Non reciprocal interference; Second order cone programming; System level analysis; TDD

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BASE STATIONS; BEAMFORMING; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN CONTROL; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PLANNING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ADAPTIVE MULTIUSER MIMO-OFDM; CELLULAR NETWORK; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING; NON-RECIPROCAL INTERFERENCE; SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM LEVEL ANALYSIS; TDD;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 46749086884     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.061124     Document Type: Article

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