Sparse beamforming and user-centric clustering for downlink cloud radio access network

IEEE Access

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1326-1339

  Dai, Binbin ^a   Yu, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

base station clustering; beamforming; Cloud radio access network (C RAN); limited backhaul; multi point (CoMP); network multiple input multiple output (MIMO); user scheduling; weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE); weighted sum rate

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL RADIO; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO; RADIO LINKS; SCHEDULING;

LIMITED BACKHAULS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MULTI-POINTS; NETWORK MULTIPLEINPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; USER SCHEDULING; WEIGHTED SUM-RATE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84923318108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2362860     Document Type: Article

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