Joint Downlink Cell Association and Bandwidth Allocation for Wireless Backhauling in Two-Tier HetNets With Large-Scale Antenna Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3251-3268

  Wang, Ning ^a,b   Hossain, Ekram ^c   Bhargava, Vijay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

5G cellular HetNet; bandwidth allocation; cell association; dense small cell network; large scale MIMO; wireless backhaul

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; CELLS; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MIMO SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

5G CELLULAR HETNET; CELL ASSOCIATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNETS); HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAM; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; WIRELESS BACKHAUL;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84969786861     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2519401     Document Type: Article

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