Cross-Layer Resource Allocation With Elastic Service Scaling in Cloud Radio Access Network

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5068-5081

  Tang, Jianhua ^a   Tay, Wee Peng ^a   Quek, Tony Q S ^b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

C RAN; cross layer design; elastic service scaling; green communication; weighted sum rate maximization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO LINKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CROSS LAYER RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; ELASTIC SERVICES; GREEDY SELECTION ALGORITHM; GREEN COMMUNICATIONS; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; WEIGHTED SUM-RATE MAXIMIZATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84959473399     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2432023     Document Type: Article

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