Joint resource allocation for max-min throughput in multicell networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4546-4559

  Li, Zhuo ^a,b   Guo, Song ^c   Zeng, Deze ^d   Barnawi, Ahmed ^e   Stojmenovic, Ivan ^e,f,g  

^a BEIJING INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel assignment; load balancing; multicell networks; power allocation; resource management; user association

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; MULTI-CELL NETWORKS; POWER ALLOCATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84909587262     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2317235     Document Type: Article

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