Dynamic Path to Stability in LTE-Unlicensed with User Mobility: A Matching Framework

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 4547-4561

  Gu, Yunan ^a   Jiang, Chunxiao ^b   Cai, Lin X ^c   Pan, Miao ^a   Song, Lingyang ^d   Han, Zhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

LTE Unlicensed; matching theory; random path to stability; stable marriage problem; user mobility

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

LTE-UNLICENSED; MATCHING THEORY; RANDOM PATHS; STABLE MARRIAGE PROBLEM; USER MOBILITY;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 85028978545     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2699966     Document Type: Article

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