Coalitional games in MISO interference channels: Epsilon-core and coalition structure stable set

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 62, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 6507-6520

  Mochaourab, Rami ^a   Jorswieck, Eduard A ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beamforming; coalition structure stable set; coalitional games; epsilon core; interference channel

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

COALITION FORMATION GAMES; COALITION FORMATIONS; COALITIONAL GAME; EPSILON-CORE; INTERFERENCE CHANNELS; MISO INTERFERENCE CHANNELS; MULTIPLE INPUT SINGLE OUTPUTS; STABLE SETS;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84913553982     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2014.2367466     Document Type: Article

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