User Association in 5G Networks: A Survey and an Outlook

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1018-1044

  Liu, Dantong ^a   Wang, Lifeng ^b   Chen, Yue ^a   Elkashlan, Maged ^a   Wong, Kai Kit ^b   Schober, Robert ^c   Hanzo, Lajos ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HetNets; massive MIMO; user association

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; TAXONOMIES;

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNETS); HETNETS; MILLIMETER WAVES (MMWAVE); RESEARCH EFFORTS; SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY; STATE OF THE ART; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84971509021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2516538     Document Type: Review

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