Opportunities and challenges in OFDMA-based cellular relay networks: A radio resource management perspective

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2496-2510

  Salem, Mohamed ^a   Adinoyi, Abdulkareem ^a   Yanikomeroglu, Halim ^a   Falconer, David ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Swedtel Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cellular; Fairness; Load balancing; Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA); Radio resource management (RRM); Relaying; Routing; Scheduling; Throughput

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE NETWORK; CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE; CELLULAR NETWORK; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DATA-RATE; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; FEEDBACK OVERHEAD; INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY; LOAD BALANCING; MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORK; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA); PERFORMANCE ASPECTS; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RELAY NETWORK; RELAY STATIONS; RELAY-ENHANCED; WIRELESS USERS;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; DYNAMIC ROUTING ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIO; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 77953748723     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2042736     Document Type: Article

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