Carrier load balancing and packet scheduling for multi-carrier systems

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1780-1789

  Wang, Yuanye ^a   Pedersen, Klaus I ^b   Sorensen, Troels B ^a   Mogensen, Preben E ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carrier aggregation; Load balancing; LTE Advanced; Multi carrier; Packet scheduling

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LOAD; LOAD-BALANCING; LONG TERM EVOLUTION; MULTI CARRIER; MULTI CARRIER SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; MULTIPLE USER; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; PACKET SCHEDULING; PACKET SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; ROUND ROBIN; SYSTEM LEVEL SIMULATION; THEORETICAL FORMULATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; METAL VAPOR LAMPS; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROUTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77952278238     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.05.091310     Document Type: Article

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