Exploiting Hybrid Clustering and Computation Provisioning for Green C-RAN

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4063-4076

  Guo, Kun ^a   Sheng, Min ^a   Tang, Jianhua ^b,c   Quek, Tony Q S ^b   Qiu, Zhiliang ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cloud radio access network (C RAN); computation provisioning; cooperative transmission; hybrid clustering; limited fronthaul capacity; power saving; virtual machine (VM) assignment

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LAKES; NETWORK SECURITY; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; HYBRID CLUSTERING; LIMITED FRONTHAUL CAPACITY; POWER SAVINGS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 85009751202     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2624119     Document Type: Article

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