Downlink multi-antenna heterogeneous cellular network with load balancing

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4052-4067

  Gupta, Abhishek K ^a   Dhillon, Harpreet S ^b   Vishwanath, Sriram ^a   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

cell selection bias; coverage probability; Multi antenna heterogeneous cellular network; stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CELL SELECTION; CLOSE APPROXIMATION; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; TRANSMISSION SCHEMES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84913597985     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2350504     Document Type: Article

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