FluidNet: A flexible cloud-based radio access network for small cells

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 915-928

  Sundaresan, Karthikeyan ^a   Arslan, Mustafa Y ^a   Singh, Shailendra ^b   Rangarajan, Sampath ^a   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular; cloud RAN; DAS; FFR; front haul

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BASE-BAND PROCESSING; CENTRALIZED OPERATIONS; DYNAMIC TRAFFIC LOADS; HETEROGENEOUS USERS; INTELLIGENT CONFIGURATION; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION STRATEGIES;

LAKES;

EID: 84928252915     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2015.2419979     Document Type: Article

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