Analytical modeling and performance evaluation of cell selection algorithms for mobile networks with backhaul capacity constraints

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6011-6023

  Olmos, Juan J ^a   Ferrús, Ramon ^a   Galeana Zapién, Hiram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cell selection; Heterogeneous networks; Load balancing; Mobile backhaul; Radio resource management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CELL SELECTION; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; MOBILE BACKHAULS; OPTIMIZATION SOLUTION; RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL MODELS; CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MODELS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84891557695     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.101813.121228     Document Type: Article

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