Ultra-Dense Networks: A Survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2522-2545

  Kamel, Mahmoud ^a   Hamouda, Walaa ^a   Youssef, Amr ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

5G; cloud RAN; D2D; DAS; IoT; massive MIMO; mmWaves; network densification; small cells; UDN

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTED REALITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SURVEYS;

COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; MM WAVES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PROPAGATION MODELING; SMALL CELLS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84999828436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2571730     Document Type: Review

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