Dynamic eICIC -A proactive strategy for improving spectral efficiencies of heterogeneous LTE cellular networks by leveraging user mobility and traffic dynamics

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4956-4969

  Vasudevan, Subramanian ^a   Pupala, Rahul N ^a   Sivanesan, Kathiravetpillai ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost blank sub frame (ABS); Cell selection bias; Dynamic eICIC; Enhanced inter cell interference co ordination (eICIC); Heterogeneous network (HetNet); Interference co ordination; load balancing; LTE; Optimization

Indexed keywords

CELL SELECTION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET); INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE CO-ORDINATION; LTE; SUB-FRAME;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84890093803     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.081413.121651     Document Type: Article

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