Capturing spatial randomness of heterogeneous cellular/WLAN deployments with dynamic traffic

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1083-1099

  Galinina, Olga ^a   Andreev, Sergey ^a   Gerasimenko, Mikhail ^a   Koucheryavy, Yevgeni ^a   Himayat, Nageen ^b   Yeh, Shu Ping ^b   Talwar, Shilpa ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted (managed) radio network selection; converged cellular WLAN deployment; dynamic uplink traffic; integrated methodology; spatial randomness

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONVERGED CELLULAR; FOURTH GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES; INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; RADIO NETWORKS; SPATIAL RANDOMNESS; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; SYSTEM LEVEL SIMULATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84904973219     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328172     Document Type: Article

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