Optimal User-Cell Association for Massive MIMO Wireless Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1835-1850

  Bethanabhotla, Dilip ^a   Bursalioglu, Ozgun Y ^b   Papadopoulos, Haralabos C ^b   Caire, Giuseppe ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Data Analytics and Innovation Group   (United States)

Author keywords

heterogeneous wireless networks; Massive MIMO; scheduling; user cell station association

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCHEDULING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ASSOCIATION SCHEMES; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; NETWORK UTILITY MAXIMIZATION; SUB-GRADIENT ALGORITHM; WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84963548151     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2496942     Document Type: Article

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