Load-aware user association with quality of service support in heterogeneous cellular networks

IET Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 494-500

  Zhou, Tianqing ^a   Huang, Yongming ^a   Fan, Lixing ^a   Yang, Luxi ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CALL BLOCKING PROBABILITIES; DUAL DECOMPOSITION; FAST CONVERGENCE RATE; FORMULATED PROBLEMS; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84924450761     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2014.0731     Document Type: Article

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