QoS-aware energy-efficient resource allocation in OFDM-based heterogenous cellular networks

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Zhou, Li ^a   Zhu, Chunsheng ^b   Ruby, Rukhsana ^b   Wang, Xiaofei ^b   Ji, Xiaoting ^a   Wang, Shan ^a,c   Wei, Jibo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Sci and Technol on Information Transmission and Dissemination in Communication Networks Laboratory   (China)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; heterogenous networks; QoS aware; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ENERGY-EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ENERGY-EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; HETEROGENOUS NETWORK; NONDETERMINISTIC POLYNOMIAL; NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL PROGRAMMING; PARAMETRIC PROGRAMMING; QOS-AWARE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84921736791     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.2931     Document Type: Article

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