Joint precoding and load balancing optimization for energy-efficient heterogeneous networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5810-5822

  Li, Jingya ^a   Bjornson, Emil ^b,c,d   Svensson, Tommy ^a   Eriksson, Thomas ^a   Debbah, Merouane ^e  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e CENTRALESUPÉLEC   (France)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; heterogeneous networks; load balancing; precoding design

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CONVEX APPROXIMATION; IMPERFECT CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; MULTI-CELL JOINT TRANSMISSIONS; NON-CONVEX OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PRECODING DESIGNS; QUALITY OF SERVICE CONSTRAINTS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION; TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84960153046     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: 15582248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2443044     Document Type: Article

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