Dynamic coalition formation for network MIMO in small cell networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5360-5372

  Guruacharya, Sudarshan ^a   Niyato, Dusit ^a   Bennis, Mehdi ^b   Kim, Dong In ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

beamforming; clustering; cooperative game theory; network MIMO; regret based learning; Small cell network

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; NETWORK MIMO; REGRET BASED LEARNING; SMALL CELL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE STATIONS; BEAMFORMING; CYTOLOGY; MIMO SYSTEMS;

CELLS;

EID: 84890114876     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.090513.130516     Document Type: Article

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