Distributed multicell beamforming design approaching pareto boundary with max-min fairness

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2921-2933

  Huang, Yongming ^a,b   Zheng, Gan ^c   Bengtsson, Mats ^b,c   Wong, Kai Kit ^d   Yang, Luxi ^a   Ottersten, Bjorn ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed processing; multicell downlink beamforming; Pareto boundary; uplink downlink duality

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; CENTRALIZED OPTIMIZATION; DATA SHARING; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED SOLUTIONS; DOWNLINK BEAM-FORMING; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; INTERCELL COMMUNICATIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; JOINT BEAMFORMING; MAX-MIN; MAX-MIN FAIRNESS; MULTICELL; NASH BARGAINING SOLUTION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PARETO BOUNDARY; PARETO-OPTIMALITY; RATE PERFORMANCE; SINGLE USERS; SUM-RATE; TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEMS; UPLINK-DOWNLINK DUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); OPTIMIZATION;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84865351166     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.061912.111751     Document Type: Article

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