Opportunistic interference mitigation achieves optimal degrees-of-freedom in wireless multi-cell uplink networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1935-1944

  Jung, Bang Chul ^a   Park, Dohyung ^b   Shin, Won Yong ^c  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

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

^c Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cellular network; degrees of freedom (DoFs); inter cell interference; interference alignment (IA); opportunistic interference alignment (OIA); opportunistic interference nulling (OIN); user scheduling

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM (DOFS); INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT; OPPORTUNISTIC INTERFERENCE NULLING (OIN); USER SCHEDULING;

ODOR CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

CELLS;

EID: 84864126625     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.051012.110205     Document Type: Article

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