Tier-aware resource allocation in OFDMA macrocell-small cell networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 695-710

  Abdelnasser, Amr ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Kim, Dong In ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Admission control; Bandwidth; Base station densification; Convex optimization; Downlink resource allocation; Dual decomposition; Interference; Macrocell networks; OFDMA; Optimization; Resource management; Small cells; Sub channel and power allocation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; BANDWIDTH; BEAMFORMING; CELLS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; CYTOLOGY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

DOWNLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION; DUAL DECOMPOSITION; MACRO CELLS; OFDMA; POWER ALLOCATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SMALL CELLS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84925271458     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2397888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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