How Many Small Cells Can be Turned Off via Vertical Offloading Under a Separation Architecture?

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5440-5453

  Zhang, Shan ^a   Gong, Jie ^a   Zhou, Sheng ^a   Niu, Zhisheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cell sleeping; dynamic network planning; Green communication; on demand service; separation architecture

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; SEPARATION; SLEEP RESEARCH;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CELLULAR NETWORK; CHANNEL BORROWING; CONTROL SIGNALING; DYNAMIC NETWORK PLANNING; GREEN COMMUNICATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ON-DEMAND SERVICES;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84959471903     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2438301     Document Type: Article

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