Fairness in wireless networks: Issues, measures and challenges

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-24

  Shi, Huaizhou ^a   Prasad, R Venkatesha ^a   Onur, Ertan ^a   Niemegeers, I G M M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entropy; Fairness; Jain's index; Max min; Min max; Proportional fairness; Resource allocation; Utility; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894653761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2013.050113.00015     Document Type: Article

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