Self organization of tilts in relay enhanced networks: A distributed solution

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 764-779

  Imran, Ali ^a   Imran, Muhammad A ^c   Abu Dayya, Adnan ^b   Tafazolli, Rahim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b QATAR MOBILITY INNOVATIONS CENTER QMIC   (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

relay station; Self organization; spectral efficiency maximization; tilt optimization

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; BENCHMARKING; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

AVERAGE SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY; DISTRIBUTED IMPLEMENTATION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RELAY STATIONS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY MAXIMIZATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84896358195     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.011614.130299     Document Type: Article

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