Interference management for LTE-Advanced Het-Nets: Stochastic scheduling approach in frequency domain

Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-17

  Zheng, Zhong ^a   Dowhuszko, Alexis A ^a   Hämäläinen, Jyri ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Ericsson Oulu R and D Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross layer interference; Femtocells; Frequency domain scheduling; Heterogeneous networks; Interference management; LTE Advanced

Indexed keywords

4G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CROSS-LAYER; FEMTO-CELLS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SCHEDULING; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; LTE-ADVANCED;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84876385924     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: 15418251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.2570     Document Type: Article

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