A novel handover decision policy for reducing power transmissions in the two-tier LTE network

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1352-1356

  Xenakis, Dionysis ^a   Passas, Nikos ^a   Verikoukis, Christos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; femtocells; handover decision policy; interference management; LTE; power consumption

Indexed keywords

END USERS; FEMTOCELLS; HANDOVER; HANDOVER DECISION; HYSTERESIS MARGIN; INDOOR COVERAGE; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; LTE; MOBILE OPERATORS; MOBILE TERMINAL; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM CAPACITY; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TRANSMIT POWER;

COMPUTER TERMINALS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FEMTOCELL; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MOBILE PHONES; POWER TRANSMISSION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871983879     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6363941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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