Revisiting Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks When the Backhaul Is Limited

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2039-2051

  Ghimire, Jagadish ^a   Rosenberg, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backhaul Limitation; Heterogeneous Cellular Networks; Proportional Fairness; User Scheduling; Fairness

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

BACKHAUL LIMITATION; BACKHAUL NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; HEURISTIC SCHEMES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; PROPORTIONAL FAIRNESS; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; USER SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84942357896     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2435291     Document Type: Article

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