Optimizing user association and spectrum allocation in HetNets: A utility perspective

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1025-1039

  Lin, Yicheng ^a,b   Bao, Wei ^a   Yu, Wei ^a   Liang, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Huawei Technologies Canada Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous cellular network; spectrum allocation; stochastic geometry; user association; utility optimization

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MOBILE SECURITY; POWER CONTROL; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; SPECTRUM ALLOCATION; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; USER ASSOCIATIONS; UTILITY OPTIMIZATIONS;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

EID: 84930503172     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2417011     Document Type: Article

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