A Survey of Resource Management Toward 5G Radio Access Networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1656-1686

  Olwal, Thomas O ^a   Djouani, Karim ^a   Kurien, Anish M ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

5G RAN QoS challenges (explosive growth in traffic volumes, massive connected devices and diversified use cases); 5G RAN techniques (massive MIMOs, mmWave backhauling, extreme densification of nodes, full duplexing, multitier communications and energy harvesting); radio interference and resource management (RIRM) schemes

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; EXPLOSIVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; RADIO; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEYS;

EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; FULL DUPLEX COMMUNICATION; MM-WAVE; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; QUALITYOF-SERVICE REQUIREMENT (QOS); RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENT; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84983760955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2550765     Document Type: Review

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