Joint Downlink and Uplink Aware Cell Association in HetNets With QoS Provisioning

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5388-5401

  Boostanimehr, Hamidreza ^a   Bhargava, Vijay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell association; Heterogeneous cellular networks; load balancing

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MULTIUSER DETECTION; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CELL ASSOCIATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SCHEMES; FAST FADING ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; MAXIMUM SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIOS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; REFERENCE SIGNALS; UPLINK INTERFERENCE;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84959500759     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2437878     Document Type: Article

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