Offloading in HCNs: Congestion-Aware Network Selection and User Incentive Design

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 6479-6492

  Li, Yuqing ^a,b   Shen, Bingyu ^a   Zhang, Jinbei ^a   Gan, Xiaoying ^a   Wang, Jingchao ^c   Wang, Xinbing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c China Electronic Equipment System Engineering Company   (China)

Author keywords

Congestion aware offloading; contract based incentive scheme; dynamic load balancing; Lyapunov optimization

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; COSTS; DYNAMIC LOADS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; PROFITABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CONGESTION-AWARE; INCENTIVE SCHEMES; MACRO CELLS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 85023612390     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2724027     Document Type: Article

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