Rethinking offload: How to intelligently combine WiFi and small cells?

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5204-5208

  Simsek, Meryem ^a   Bennis, Mehdi ^b   Debbah, Merouane ^c   Czylwik, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF SERVICE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SCHEDULING;

LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; PROPORTIONAL FAIR; QUALITYOF-SERVICE REQUIREMENT (QOS); SPECTRUM BANDS; TRAFFIC LOADS; WIFI HOTSPOTS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84891353125     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2013.6655411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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