Joint resource partitioning and offloading in heterogeneous cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 888-901

  Singh, Sarabjot ^a   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

downlink rate distribution; eICIC; Heterogeneous cellular networks; load balancing; offloading; stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EICIC; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; OFFLOADING; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84896390583     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.120713.130548     Document Type: Article

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