Load Aware Self-Organising User-Centric Dynamic CoMP Clustering for 5G Networks

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 2895-2906

  Bassoy, Selcuk ^a   Jaber, Mona ^a   Imran, Muhammad Ali ^a   Xiao, Pei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cellular networks; clustering algorithms; Cooperative communication; mobile communication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; COORDINATED MULTI POINT (COMP); INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; JOINT TRANSMISSIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PRECISE SYNCHRONIZATIONS; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84979824676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2569824     Document Type: Article

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