Dynamic Nested Clustering for Parallel PHY-Layer Processing in Cloud-RANs

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1881-1894

  Fan, Congmin ^a   Zhang, Ying Jun ^a   Yuan, Xiaojun ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud RAN; dynamic clustering; parallel processing

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BASE-BAND PROCESSING; CENTRALIZED PROCESSING; DYNAMIC CLUSTERING; ESTIMATION COMPLEXITY; PARALLEL PROCESSING; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84963576943     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2496953     Document Type: Article

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