Approximation algorithms for mobile data caching in small cell networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3665-3677

  Poularakis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Iosifidis, George ^a,b   Tassiulas, Leandros ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caching and routing algorithms; facility location problems; network optimization; small cell networks

Indexed keywords

FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEM; MOBILE DATA; NETWORK OPTIMIZATION; SMALL CELL NETWORKS;

EID: 84908306629     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2351796     Document Type: Article

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