Energy-efficient context-aware user association for outdoor small cell heterogeneous networks

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1614-1619

  Mesodiakaki, Agapi ^a   Adelantado, Ferran ^b   Alonso, Luis ^a   Verikoukis, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

backhaul; context awareness; green communications; LTE Advanced; small cells; User association

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BACKHAUL; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; GREEN COMMUNICATIONS; LTE-ADVANCED; SMALL CELLS; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84907000365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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