Interference modeling and performance evaluation of heterogeneous cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2132-2144

  Mirahmadi, Maysam ^a   Al Dweik, Arafat ^b,c   Shami, Abdallah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular systems; Co channel interference; Femtocell; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CELLULAR SYSTEM; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; INTERFERENCE MODELING; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE RATIO;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84903137910     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2320719     Document Type: Article

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