Interference alignment for cooperative femtocell networks: A game-theoretic approach

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2233-2246

  Pantisano, Francesco ^a,b   Bennis, Mehdi ^b   Saad, Walid ^c   Debbah, Merouane ^d   Latva Aho, Matti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coalitional games; Emerging technologies; femtocell networks; game theory; interference alignment; mobile communication systems; partition form; recursive core; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

COALITIONAL GAME; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FEMTOCELL NETWORKS; INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT; PARTITION FORMS; RECURSIVE CORES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE STATIONS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GAME THEORY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84878550094     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.196     Document Type: Article

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