Base station operation and user association mechanisms for energy-delay tradeoffs in green cellular networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1525-1536

  Son, Kyuho ^a   Kim, Hongseok ^b   Yi, Yung ^c   Krishnamachari, Bhaskar ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Sogang University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

base station operation; cellular system; Energy efficient; flow level dynamics; greedy algorithms; user association

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FLOW-LEVEL; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; STATION OPERATIONS; USER ASSOCIATION;

BASE STATIONS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMBINATORIAL SWITCHING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052046766     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2011.110903     Document Type: Article

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