Energy-Efficient NOMA-Enabled Traffic Offloading via Dual-Connectivity in Small-Cell Networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1605-1608

  Wu, Yuan ^a,b   Qian, Li Ping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

energy efficient; NOMA; small cells; traffic offloading

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENT; NOMA; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POWER ALLOCATIONS; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; SMALL CELLS; SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85029848511     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2685384     Document Type: Article

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