Distributed cooperative Q-learning for mobility-sensitive handover optimization in LTE SON

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

Volumn Workshops, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mwanje, Stephen S ^a   Mitschele Thiel, Andreas ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Handover; LTE; MRO; Q Learning; SON

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

HANDOVER; MOBILITY ROBUSTNESS OPTIMIZATIONS; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; PARAMETER SETTING; Q-LEARNING; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; SELF-ORGANIZATION NETWORKS; SPECIFIC VELOCITIES;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 84908139528     PISSN: 15301346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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