Joint antenna beamforming, multiuser scheduling, and power allocation for hierarchical cellular systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 896-909

  Ku, Meng Lin ^a   Wang, Li Chun ^b   Liu, Yu Lung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hierarchical cell; multiuser beamforming; multiuser scheduling; power allocation; semi definite relaxation (SDR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; CELLULAR ARRAYS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE RADIO; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

HIERARCHICAL CELLULAR SYSTEMS; IMPLEMENTATION COMPLEXITY; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIUSER BEAMFORMING; MULTIUSER SCHEDULING; POWER ALLOCATIONS; SEMI-DEFINITE PROGRAMMING; SEMIDEFINITE RELAXATION;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84928713639     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2361083     Document Type: Article

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