Locally cooperative traffic-offloading in multi-mode small cell networks via potential games

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 968-981

  Shao, Hongxiang ^a,d   Sun, Youming ^b   Zhao, Hangsheng ^c   Zhong, Wei ^a   Xu, Yuhua ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL DIGITAL SWITCHING SYSTEM ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c Department of Technology   (China)

^d LUOYANG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; COMPLETE INFORMATION; COUPLED INTERFERENCES; EXACT POTENTIAL GAME; INTERFERENCE GRAPHS; ITERATIVE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PURE STRATEGY NASH EQUILIBRIUMS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE);

CELLS;

EID: 84978009864     PISSN: 21615748     EISSN: 21613915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3036     Document Type: Article

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