Collaborative sub-channel allocation in cognitive LTE femto-cells: A cooperative game-theoretic approach

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 325-334

  Gharehshiran, Omid Namvar ^a   Attar, Alireza ^a   Krishnamurthy, Vikram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative game; distributed coalition formation; femto cell; resource allocation; UMTS LTE

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVABLE THROUGHPUTS; ALLOCATION MECHANISM; COALITION FORMATIONS; COALITION STRUCTURE; COOPERATIVE GAME; FEMTO CELLS; GAME-THEORETIC; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; STABLE COALITION; SUBCHANNELS; UMTS-LTE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; FEMTOCELL; GAME THEORY; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THROUGHPUT;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873728008     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.100312.110480     Document Type: Article

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