Improving macrocell-small cell coexistence through adaptive interference draining

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 942-955

  Pantisano, Francesco ^a   Bennis, Mehdi ^a   Saad, Walid ^b   Debbah, Merouane ^c   Latva Aho, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

coalition games; draining; game theory; interference management; MIMO; Small cell networks

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GAME THEORY; MIMO SYSTEMS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS;

COALITION GAME; DRAINING; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; INTERFERENCE CONDITION; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; NON-COOPERATIVE CASE; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITIES;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

EID: 84896390388     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.120613.130617     Document Type: Article

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