Downlink and uplink energy minimization through user association and beamforming in C-RAN

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 494-508

  Luo, Shixin ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a,b   Lim, Teng Joon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

beamforming; Cloud radio access network; green communication; group sparse optimization; relaxed integer programming; uplink downlink duality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GREEN COMMUNICATIONS; GROUP SPARSE; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; REAL TIME BROADCASTING; UPLINK-DOWNLINK DUALITIES;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84921341230     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.2352619     Document Type: Article

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