Coordination in a multi-cell multi-antenna multi-user W-CDMA system: A beamforming approach

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4479-4485

  Botella, Carmen ^a   Piñero, Gema ^a   Gonzalez, Alberto ^a   De Diego, María ^a  

^a ITEAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coordinated multi cell system; Downlink multi base beamforming; Joint power control and optimal beamforming algorithms; Multi base scheduling techniques

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; BEAMFORMING; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; POWER CONTROL; POWER QUALITY; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

BEAM FORMERS; CDMA SYSTEMS; CELL SYSTEMS; COORDINATED MULTI-CELL SYSTEM; DEGREE OF COORDINATIONS; DOWN LINKS; DOWNLINK MULTI-BASE BEAMFORMING; JOINT POWER CONTROL AND OPTIMAL BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; JOINT POWER CONTROLS; MATCH FILTERS; MULTI-BASE SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES; OPTIMAL BEAMFORMING; POWER CONSTRAINTS; REALISTIC SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TRANSMITTED POWERS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 57149132815     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.070844     Document Type: Article

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