Drone small cells in the clouds: design, deployment and performance analysis

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mozaffari, Mohammad ^a   Saad, Walid ^a   Bennis, Mehdi ^b   Debbah, Merouane ^c  

^a Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS;

AERIAL VEHICLE; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; DEPLOYMENT ANALYSIS; DESIGN ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM COVERAGE; PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; SMALL CELLS; WIRELESS BASE STATIONS;

DRONES;

EID: 84964803622     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7417609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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