Joint power allocation and user association optimization for massive MIMO systems

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 6384-6399

  Van Chien, Trinh ^a   Bjornson, Emil ^a   Larsson, Erik G ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

linear program; load balancing; Massive MIMO; power allocation; user association

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING CHANNELS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; RAYLEIGH FADING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; ERGODIC SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; LINEAR PROGRAMS; MAXIMUM RATIO TRANSMISSION; MIMO (MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT); OPTIMAL POWER ALLOCATION; POWER ALLOCATIONS; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 84987851750     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2583436     Document Type: Article

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