Load balancing in heterogeneous LTE: Range optimization via cell offset and load-coupling characterization

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1357-1361

  Siomina, Iana ^a   Yuan, Di ^a,b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous networks; load balancing; LTE; optimization; radio resource management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; LOW POWER; LTE; MONOTONICITY; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RANGE ASSIGNMENT; RANGE OPTIMIZATION;

CELLS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84871959902     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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