Two time-scale cross-layer scheduling for cellular/WLAN interworking

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2773-2789

  Tharaperiya Gamage, Amila ^a   Liang, Hao ^b   Shen, Xuemin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular network; cross layer scheduling; interworking; multiple time scale Markov decision process (MMDP); wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CELLULAR NETWORK; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; CROSS LAYER SCHEDULING; INTERWORKING; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISION;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84906568901     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2337890     Document Type: Article

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