Reinforcement learning strategies for self-organized coverage and capacity optimization

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2818-2823

  Ul Islam, Muhammad Naseer ^a   Mitschele Thiel, Andreas ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

antenna downtilt; fuzzy logic; fuzzy q learning; LTE; reinforcement learning; self organization

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DOWNTILT; CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION; CELLULAR NETWORK; CLUSTER-BASED; DYNAMIC STRATEGIES; FUZZY-Q-LEARNING; LEARNING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING SPEED; LEARNING STRATEGY; LTE; NETWORK STATE; NORMAL OPERATIONS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTIMAL SETTING; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FUZZY LOGIC; OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 84864351569     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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