Multi-cell MIMO cooperative networks: A new look at interference

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1380-1408

  Gesbert, David ^a   Hanly, Stephen ^b   Huang, Howard ^c   Shamai Shitz, Shlomo ^d   Simeone, Osvaldo ^e   Yu, Wei ^f  

^a EURECOM   (France)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

beamforming; cellular networks; Cooperation; coordination; distributed; interference; MIMO; multi cell; relays

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORKS; COOPERATION; COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED; INTERFERENCE; MIMO; MULTICELL; RELAYS;

BEAMFORMING; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; INFORMATION THEORY; MIMO SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 78649738324     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2010.101202     Document Type: Article

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