Energy-efficient resource allocation in multi-cell OFDMA systems with limited backhaul capacity

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3618-3631

  Ng, Derrick Wing Kwan ^a   Lo, Ernest S ^b   Schober, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Centre Tecnol ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Hong Kong CTTC HK   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; green communication; limited backhaul; network MIMO; non convex optimization; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM; DATA RATES; DUAL DECOMPOSITION; DUALITY GAP; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY-EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION; HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY; LIMITED BACKHAUL; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MULTICELL; NETWORK CAPACITY; NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION; NONCONVEXITY; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; OFDMA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; PERTURBATION FUNCTIONS; POWER ALLOCATIONS; POWER OPTIMIZATION; PRIMAL PROBLEM; RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEM; SEMI ORTHOGONAL USER SELECTIONS (SUS); SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; TRANSMIT POWER; ZERO-FORCING BEAMFORMING;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84867897888     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.083112.111951     Document Type: Article

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