User Association and Interference Management in Massive MIMO HetNets

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2049-2065

  Ye, Qiaoyang ^a   Bursalioglu, Ozgun Yilmaz ^b   Papadopoulos, Haralabos C ^b   Caramanis, Constantine ^a   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b DOCOMO Innovations Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; JOINT TRANSMISSIONS; NETWORK UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS (NUM); OPTIMAL ASSOCIATION; SCHEDULING SCHEMES; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84970023324     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2547956     Document Type: Article

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