Joint User-Association and Resource-Allocation in Virtualized Wireless Networks

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 2738-2750

  Parsaeefard, Saeedeh ^a   Dawadi, Rajesh ^b   Derakhshani, Mahsa ^c   Le Ngoc, Tho ^b  

^a IRAN TELECOMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementary geometric programming; joint user association and resource allocation; successive convex approximation; virtualized wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; CELLS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CYTOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING; LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; OPTIMUM POWER ALLOCATIONS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; POWER ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS; SUCCESSIVE CONVEX APPROXIMATIONS; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84979828588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2560218     Document Type: Article

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