Load balancing in cellular networks with user-in-the-loop: A spatial traffic shaping approach

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 2015-September, Issue , 2015, Pages 2638-2643

  Wang, Ziyang ^a   Schoenen, Rainer ^a   Yanikomeroglu, Halim ^a   St Hilaire, Marc ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell association; heterogeneous cellular networks; load balancing; load aware; User in the loop

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953746606     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2015.7248723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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