A traffic load balancing framework for software-defined radio access networks powered by hybrid energy sources

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1038-1051

  Han, Tao ^a   Ansari, Nirwan ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green communications; HetNet; renewable energy; software defined radio access networks; traffic load balancing

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RADIO; RADIO RECEIVERS; SOFTWARE RADIO; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; HYBRID ENERGY SOURCES; MOBILE DATA TRAFFIC; NETWORK UTILITY; PERFORMANCE METRICES; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84925426216     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2015.2404576     Document Type: Article

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