Dual-band femtocell traffic balancing over licensed and unlicensed bands

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6809-6814

  Liu, Feilu ^a   Erkip, Elza ^a   Beluri, Mihaela C ^b   Yang, Rui ^b   Bala, Erdem ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

femtocell; heterogenous network; small cell; traffic balancing; unlicensed band; user utility

Indexed keywords

DATA-COMMUNICATION; DUAL-BAND; FEMTOCELLS; HETEROGENOUS NETWORK; NETWORK SIMULATORS; TRAFFIC BALANCING; UNLICENSED BAND; USER EQUIPMENTS; USER SATISFACTION; USER UTILITY; WI FI NETWORKS;

FEMTOCELL; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

WI-FI;

EID: 84871957657     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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