Toward 5G densenets: Architectural advances for effective machine-type communications over femtocells

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 134-141

  Condoluci, Massimo ^a   Dohler, Mischa ^b   Araniti, Giuseppe ^a   Molinaro, Antonella ^a   Zheng, Kan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ACCESS DELAY; CELLULAR NETWORK; CORE NETWORKS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DESIGN CHALLENGES; LOW LATENCY; MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO ACCESS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84921471716     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7010526     Document Type: Article

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