A Distributed SON-Based User-Centric Backhaul Provisioning Scheme

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 2314-2330

  Jaber, Mona ^a   Imran, Muhammad Ali ^a   Tafazolli, Rahim ^a   Tukmanov, Anvar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backhaul; fronthaul; Multiple attribute decision making; reinforcement learning; SON; user cell association; user centric

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; THROUGHPUT;

BACKHAUL; CELL ASSOCIATIONS; FRONTHAUL; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; USER-CENTRIC;

CELLS;

EID: 84979824031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2566958     Document Type: Article

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