Distributed coordination of self-organizing mechanisms in communication networks

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 328-337

  Tall, Abdoulaye ^a   Combes, Richard ^b   Altman, Zwi ^a   Altman, Eitan ^c  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Concave games; self organizing networks (SONs); self organizing networks (SONs) coordination; stochastic approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONCAVE GAMES; CONTROL THEORY APPROACH; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; LINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SELF ORGANIZING NETWORK (SON); SELF-ORGANIZING MECHANISM; SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATIONS;

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

EID: 84911969236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23255870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2014.2357511     Document Type: Article

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