A jain's index perspective on α-fairness resource allocation over slow fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 705-708

  Guo, Chongtao ^a   Sheng, Min ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Wang, Xijun ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fairness; Jain's index; Resource allocation; system efficiency; tradeoff

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY AND FAIRNESS; FAIRNESS MEASURES; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; JAIN'S INDEX; SLOW FADING CHANNEL; SLOW RAYLEIGH FADING; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; TRADEOFF;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84877291971     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2013.021913.130025     Document Type: Article

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