Automated wireless coverage optimization with controlled overlap

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2395-2403

  Fagen, Donna ^a   Vicharelli, Pablo A ^a   Weitzen, Jay ^b  

^a Equilateral Technologies   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Interference; Optimization methods; Propagation; Radio resource management

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AVERAGE COVERAGE; BIT ENERGY; BIT ERROR RATE (BER); CARRIER (CO); CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS; COMPLEX TASKS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; COVERAGE COEFFICIENT; FIGURE-OF-MERIT (FOM); INTERFERENCE RATIO (MSINR); NETWORK COVERAGE; NETWORK PARAMETERS; NETWORK PERFORMANCES; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE-RATIO (SINR); TRANSMIT POWER OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS COVERAGE;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 48749103468     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.912329     Document Type: Article

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