A game-theoretic approach to load balancing in cellular radio networks

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1184-1189

  Awada, Ahmad ^a   Wegmann, Bernhard ^a   Viering, Ingo ^b   Klein, Anja ^c  

^a NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Germany)

^b NOMOR RESEARCH GMBH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3GPP LTE release 9; Game theory; Load balancing; Self optimizing networks

Indexed keywords

3GPP LTE; CELLULAR RADIO NETWORKS; LOAD BALANCING PROBLEM; LOAD-BALANCING; LONG TERM EVOLUTION; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; NASH EQUILIBRIUM POINT; SELF-OPTIMIZING NETWORKS; SIMULATION RESULT; WORST CASE;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 78751543484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5672050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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