Are Heterogeneous Cloud-Based Radio Access Networks Cost Effective?

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2239-2251

  Suryaprakash, Vinay ^a   Rost, Peter ^b   Fettweis, Gerhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

backhaul; Cloud RAN; computational complexity; deployment cost; Heterogeneous networks; stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; BASE STATIONS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BACKHAUL; CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; COMPLEXITY MODELING; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DEPLOYMENT COSTS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84942316040     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2435275     Document Type: Article

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