Multicell coordination via joint scheduling, beamforming, and power spectrum adaptation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3300-3313

  Yu, Wei ^a   Kwon, Taesoo ^b   Shin, Changyong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Beamforming; cellular networks; coordinated multiple point (CoMP); femtocell; intercell coordination; network multiple input multiple output (MIMO); picocell; power control; scheduling

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; COORDINATED MULTIPLE-POINT (COMP); INTER-CELL COORDINATIONS; NETWORK MULTIPLEINPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); PICO-CELL;

BEAMFORMING; FEMTOCELL; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MIMO SYSTEMS; POWER CONTROL; POWER SPECTRUM; SCHEDULING;

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84881375721     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.052313.121128     Document Type: Article

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