Small cell backhaul: challenges and prospective solutions

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Jafari, Amir H ^a,b   López Pérez, David ^b   Song, Hui ^c   Claussen, Holger ^b   Ho, Lester ^b   Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backhaul; Point of Presence; Small cell; Wired; Wireless

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; CYTOLOGY; RADIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BACKHAUL; POINT OF PRESENCE; SMALL CELLS; WIRED; WIRED AND WIRELESS; WIRELESS BACKHAUL; WIRELESS BROADBAND; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

CELLS;

EID: 84958168990     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13638-015-0426-y     Document Type: Article

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