Downlink Power Control in Two-Tier Cellular Networks with Energy-Harvesting Small Cells as Stochastic Games

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5267-5282

  Thuc, Tran Kien ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Tabassum, Hina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; Mean field game; power control; Small cell networks; stochastic game

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY HARVESTING; GAME THEORY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER CONTROL; DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS; MEAN FIELD GAMES; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC GAME; SYSTEM OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 84961775695     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2497239     Document Type: Article

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