Load-aware reconfiguration of LTE-antennas: Dynamic cell-phone network adaptation using organic network control

ICINCO 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 236-242

  Tomforde, Sven ^a   Ostrovsky, Alexander ^b   Hähner, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Antennas; Intelligent system control; Learning; LTE; Organic computing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DETERIORATION; EFFICIENCY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SMARTPHONES;

ADAPTIVITY; EVALUATION RESULTS; HOT-SPOT TRAFFIC; LEARNING; NETWORK OPERATOR; ORGANIC COMPUTING; ORGANIC NETWORKS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84910058641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0005045102360243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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