Downlink and uplink cell association with traditional macrocells and millimeter wave small cells

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 6244-6258

  Elshaer, Hisham ^a,b   Kulkarni, Mandar N ^c   Boccardi, Federico ^d   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^c   Dohler, Mischa ^b  

^a Vodafone   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d OFCOM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cell association; decoupling; downlink; Millimeter wave; stochastic geometry; sub 6GHz; uplink

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CELL ASSOCIATIONS; DECOUPLING; DOWNLINK; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; SUB-6GHZ; UPLINK;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 84987912475     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2582152     Document Type: Article

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