A survey on uplink resource allocation in OFDMA wireless networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 322-337

  Yaacoub, Elias ^a   Dawy, Zaher ^b  

^a QATAR MOBILITY INNOVATIONS CENTER QMIC   (Qatar)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

cooperative communications; interference mitigation; OFDMA; Resource allocation; scheduling; uplink

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ERGODICS; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; MULTICELL; MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME; NON-COOPERATIVE; OFDMA; SCHEDULING SCHEMES; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS; SINGLE CELLS; UPLINK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; SURVEYS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84860887968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.051111.00121     Document Type: Review

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