Balancing backhaul load in heterogeneous cloud radio access networks

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 42-48

  Ran, Chen ^a   Wang, Shaowei ^a   Wang, Chonggang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE SECURITY; RADIO; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET); RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84936933913     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2015.7143325     Document Type: Article

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