Unified and Distributed QoS-Driven Cell Association Algorithms in Heterogeneous Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1650-1662

  Boostanimehr, Hamidreza ^a   Bhargava, Vijay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell association; Heterogeneous cellular networks; load balancing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MESSAGE PASSING; MOBILE SECURITY; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CELL ASSOCIATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET); LAGRANGE DUAL DECOMPOSITIONS; MAXIMUM SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIOS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE CONSTRAINTS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84924857887     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.2371465     Document Type: Article

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