A Sharing- and Competition-Aware Framework for Cellular Network Evolution Planning

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 230-243

  Di Francesco, Paolo ^a   Malandrino, Francesco ^a   Forde, Timothy K ^a   Dasilva, Luiz A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; Network planning; Network sharing; Real data

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; NETWORK PLANNING; NETWORK SHARING; REAL-DATA; SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84988606040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23327731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCCN.2015.2488648     Document Type: Article

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