Offloading in HetNet: A Coordination of Interference Mitigation, User Association, and Resource Allocation

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2276-2291

  Oo, Thant Zin ^a   Tran, Nguyen H ^a   Saad, Walid ^a,b   Niyato, Dusit ^c   Han, Zhu ^d   Hong, Choong Seon ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous cellular networks; HetNets; interference mitigation; resource allocation; user association

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CHAINS; GAME THEORY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPLETE INFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS; HETNETS; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; MARKOV APPROXIMATION; SELF ORGANIZING ALGORITHM; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; USER ASSOCIATIONS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 85028457360     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2016.2613864     Document Type: Article

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