QoS-aware and energy-efficient resource management in OFDMA femtocells

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-194

  Le, Long Bao ^a   Niyato, Dusit ^b   Hossain, Ekram ^c   Kim, Dong In ^d   Hoang, Dinh Thai ^b  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

admission control; blocking probability; channel assignment; Femtocell network; Markov decision process

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; AVERAGE RATE; CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FEMTOCELLS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; HYBRID-ACCESS; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; MACRO CELLS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; MULTIBAND; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPPORTUNISTIC SCHEDULING; OPTIMAL DESIGN; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE GAIN; POWER ADAPTATION; POWER SAVINGS; PROBABILITY CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; TIME-SCALES; TRAFFIC LOADS; USER EQUIPMENTS;

ACCESS CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; BLOCKING PROBABILITY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK LAYERS; PACKET NETWORKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84873098083     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.120412.120141     Document Type: Article

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