Analysis of the impact of site planning on the performance of relay deployments

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3139-3150

  Bou Saleh, Abdallah ^a   Bulakci, Ömer ^a,b   Hämäläinen, Jyri ^a   Redana, Simone ^b   Raaf, Bernhard ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell selection; IEEE 802.16m; location selection; Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced; network planning; relaying

Indexed keywords

802.16M; CELL SELECTION; LOCATION SELECTION; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; NETWORK PLANNING; RELAYING;

BASE STATIONS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866508283     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2202253     Document Type: Article

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