Traffic Off-Loading with Energy-Harvesting Small Cells and Coded Content Caching

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 906-917

  Li, Tao ^a   Ashraphijuo, Mehdi ^b   Wang, Xiaodong ^b   Fan, Pingyi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; macro base station (BS); Markov decision process (MDP); proactive coded content caching; small cells (SCs); Traffic off load; value iteration

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTENT CACHING; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; OFF-LOAD; SMALL CELLS; VALUE ITERATION;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 85013427527     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2636283     Document Type: Article

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