Contract-based interference coordination in heterogeneous cloud radio access networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1140-1153

  Peng, Mugen ^a   Xie, Xinqian ^a   Hu, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b   Poor, H Vincent ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Base stations; Cloud computing; contract based game theory; Contracts; Game theory; Games; Heterogeneous cloud radio access networks; Interference; interference coordination; Radio access networks

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER GAMES; CONTRACTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GAME THEORY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LAKES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIO; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

COOPERATIVE PROCESSING; DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS; GAMES; INTERFERENCE CO-ORDINATION; OPTIMAL CONTRACT DESIGN; PERFECT CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION DATA RATE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84930504751     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2416985     Document Type: Article

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