Cell association and interference coordination in heterogeneous LTE-A cellular networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1479-1489

  Madan, Ritesh ^a   Borran, Jaber ^a   Sampath, Ashwin ^a   Bhushan, Naga ^a   Khandekar, Aamod ^a   Ji, Tingfang ^a  

^a Qualcomm ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

femtocells; Inter cell interference management

Indexed keywords

CELL-SPLITTING; CELLULAR NETWORK; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; FAST DYNAMICS; FEMTOCELLS; INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION; INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE CO-ORDINATION; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; LOW OVERHEAD; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RANGE EXPANSION; RELAY NODE; SPATIAL REUSE; STATIC RESOURCE; TRAFFIC AGGREGATION; TRANSMIT POWER; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIO INTERFERENCE;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78649751431     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2010.101209     Document Type: Article

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