User association for load balancing in heterogeneous cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2706-2716

  Ye, Qiaoyang ^a   Rong, Beiyu ^a   Chen, Yudong ^a   Al Shalash, Mazin ^b   Caramanis, Constantine ^a   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

distributed algorithm; heterogeneous cellular networks; Load balancing; range expansion; user association

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PHYSICAL RELAXATION; RANGE EXPANSION; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE; USER ASSOCIATIONS; UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84880215668     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.040413.120676     Document Type: Article

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