Energy-Aware Joint User Scheduling and Power Control for Two-Tier Femtocell Networks: A Hierarchical Game Approach

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 2533-2544

  Sun, Youming ^a   Wang, Jinlong ^b   Sun, Fenggang ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a  

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

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy cost; femtocell; interference management; Stackelberg game; user scheduling

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FEMTOCELL; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POWER MANAGEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATION); SCHEDULING;

FEMTOCELL NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL GAMES; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORK; OPTIMAL TRANSMISSION; STACKELBERG EQUILIBRIUM; STACKELBERG GAMES; USER SCHEDULING;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 84979021071     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2016.2580560     Document Type: Article

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