Two-Dimensional Optimization on User Association and Green Energy Allocation for HetNets with Hybrid Energy Sources

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4111-4124

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

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

convex optimization; green energy allocation; HetNets; hybrid energy sources; user association

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

GREEN ENERGY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNETS); HETNETS; HYBRID ENERGY SOURCES; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL OPTIMIZATIONS; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84959336741     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2470659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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