Distributed inter-BS cooperation aided energy efficient load balancing for cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5929-5939

  Hossain, Md Farhad ^a   Munasinghe, Kumudu S ^b   Jamalipour, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; Cooperative networks; Energy efficiency; Load balancing; Radio access network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895061192     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.100213.130672     Document Type: Article

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