Physical resource block clustering method for an ofdma cognitive femtocell system

Physical Communication

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-77

  Bartoli, Giulio ^a   Fantacci, Romano ^a   Marabissi, Dania ^a   Pucci, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; Cognitive femtocell; LTE; OFDMA; PRB; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; FEMTOCELL; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLUSTERING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING METHODS; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORK; OFDMA; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; PHYSICAL RESOURCE BLOCKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION POLICY;

K-MEANS CLUSTERING;

EID: 84900869052     PISSN: 18744907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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