Joint uplink/downlink optimization for backhaul-limited mobile cloud computing with user scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 787-802

  Al Shuwaili, Ali ^a   Simeone, Osvaldo ^a   Bagheri, Alireza ^a   Scutari, Gesualdo ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

5G; Application offloading; backhaul; cloudlet; latency; mobile cloud computing; network MIMO; successive convex approximation; user selection

Indexed keywords

MIMO SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

APPLICATION OFFLOADING; BACKHAUL; CLOUDLET; LATENCY; NETWORK MIMO; SUCCESSIVE CONVEX APPROXIMATIONS; USER SELECTION;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85028383966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2373776X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSIPN.2017.2668142     Document Type: Article

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