Joint millimeter-wave fronthaul and OFDMA resource allocation in ultra-dense CRAN

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1411-1423

  Stephen, Reuben George ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cloud radio access network; millimeter wave fronthaul; orthogonal frequency division multiple access; resource allocation; ultra dense network

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RADIO LINKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DENSE NETWORK; JOINT RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; MILLIMETER WAVES (MMWAVE); OFDMA RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESSES (TDMA); WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 85017599272     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2649519     Document Type: Article

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