Concurrent load-aware adjustment of user association and antenna tilts in self-organizing radio networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1974-1988

  Fehske, Albrecht J ^a   Klessig, Henrik ^a   Voigt, Jens ^b   Fettweis, Gerhard P ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Actix RandD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacity and coverage optimization (CCO); cell outage compensation (COC); closed loop optimization; interference modeling; Long Term Evolution (LTE); mobility load balancing (MLB); self optimization; self organizing networks (SONs); system modeling; wireless network planning and optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; CELLS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CAPACITY AND COVERAGE OPTIMIZATIONS; CELL OUTAGE COMPENSATIONS; CLOSED-LOOP; INTERFERENCE MODELING; MOBILITY LOAD BALANCING; SELF-OPTIMIZATION; SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK; SYSTEM MODELING; WIRELESS NETWORK PLANNING;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84879245581     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2013.2252474     Document Type: Article

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