Distributed Energy Efficient Fair User Association in Massive MIMO Enabled HetNets

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1770-1773

  Liu, Dantong ^a   Wang, Lifeng ^b   Chen, Yue ^a   Zhang, Tiankui ^c   Chai, Kok Keong ^a   Elkashlan, Maged ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

energy efficient; HetNets; massive MIMO; User association

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CIRCUIT POWER CONSUMPTION; DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNETS); HETNETS; MULTIPLE INPUT AND MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84944211903     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2454504     Document Type: Article

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