Joint Scheduling and Beamforming Coordination in Cloud Radio Access Networks With QoS Guarantees

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5449-5460

  Huang, Xiaoyan ^a   Xue, Guoliang ^b   Yu, Ruozhou ^b   Leng, Supeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; cloud radio access network (C RAN); multiuser multiple input multiple output (MIMO); scheduling; wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; MULTIUSER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO); NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; QUALITYOF-SERVICE REQUIREMENT (QOS); RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84979496999     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2464278     Document Type: Article

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