A dynamic coalition formation framework for interference management in dense small-cell networks

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 718-731

  Ahmed, Manzoor ^a   Wang, Wenbo ^a   Zhang, Biling ^a,b   Sun, Chengdan ^a   Ahmad, Ishtiaq ^a   Rehman, Waheed Ur ^a   Sun, Yaohua ^a   Yan, Shi ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLS;

CELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORKS; COALITION FORMATIONS; DYNAMIC COALITIONS; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; NON-COOPERATIVE CASE; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84936762282     PISSN: 21615748     EISSN: 21613915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.2901     Document Type: Article

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