Exploiting Device-to-Device Communications to Enhance Spatial Reuse for Popular Content Downloading in Directional mmWave Small Cells

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5538-5550

  Niu, Yong ^a   Su, Li ^a   Gao, Chuhan ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Jin, Depeng ^a   Han, Zhu ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Device to device (D2D) millimeter wave communications; small cells; spatial reuse

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS; DEVICETO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION; DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION; MILLIMETER WAVES (MMWAVE); MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; NEAR-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; SMALL CELLS; SPATIAL REUSE;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 84979233588     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2466656     Document Type: Article

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