Low-Cost On-Demand C-RAN Based Mobile Small-Cells

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 2331-2339

  Radwan, Ayman ^a   Huq, Kazi Mohammed Saidul ^a   Mumtaz, Shahid ^a   Tsang, Kim Fung ^b   Rodriguez, Jonathan ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

5G; Backhaul; C RAN; LTE Advanced; Mmwave

Indexed keywords

4G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

BACKHAUL; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; LTE- ADVANCED; MM-WAVE; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH INTERESTS;

COSTS;

EID: 84979844518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2563518     Document Type: Article

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