Distributed-optimal user association and cell load balancing in wireless networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-190

  Kim, Hongseok ^a   De Veciana, Gustavo ^b   Yang, Xiangying ^c   Venkatachalam, Muthaiah ^c  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay optimal; Flow level dynamics; Load balancing; Throughput optimal; User association; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION CONTROL POLICIES; DELAY-OPTIMAL; FIXED POINTS; FLOW-LEVEL; GENERALIZED SYSTEMS; LOAD VECTORS; LOAD-BALANCING; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; SYSTEM LEVELS; THROUGHPUT-OPTIMAL; TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTIONS; TRAFFIC LOADS;

CYTOLOGY; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84857359445     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2011.2157937     Document Type: Article

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