An advanced SOM algorithm applied to handover management within lte

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1883-1894

  Sinclair, Neil ^a   Harle, David ^a   Glover, Ian A ^b   Irvine, James ^a   Atkinson, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Handover; long term evolution (LTE); neural networks; self organizing feature maps; self organizing networks (SON)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

HANDOVER; HANDOVER MANAGEMENT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PLUG-AND-PLAY FUNCTIONALITY; SELF-ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP; SELF-ORGANIZING MAP (SOM); SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84879165756     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2013.2251922     Document Type: Article

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