Software-defined hyper-cellular architecture for green and elastic wireless access

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 12-19

  Zhou, Sheng ^a   Zhao, Tao ^b   Niu, Zhisheng ^a   Zhou, Shidong ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Base stations; Cloud computing; Communication channels; Computer architecture; Control systems; Mobile communication; Software defined networking

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACE STATES; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; ELASTIC SERVICES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; HARDWARE TESTBEDS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; STATION OPERATIONS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84962030297     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.7378420     Document Type: Article

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