Beamforming for small cell deployment in LTE-advanced and beyond

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 50-56

  Bartoli, Giulio ^a   Fantacci, Romano ^a   Letaief, Khaled B ^b   Marabissi, Dania ^a   Privitera, Niccolò ^a   Pucci, Marco ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CYTOLOGY; FREQUENCY BANDS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LTE-ADVANCED; MACRO CELLS; MULTI-ANTENNA TECHNIQUES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SMALL CELLS; SPATIAL DOMAINS;

CELLS;

EID: 84903599930     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2014.6812291     Document Type: Article

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