UAV-Aided Offloading for Cellular Hotspot

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 3988-4001

  Lyu, Jiangbin ^a   Zeng, Yong ^b   Zhang, Rui ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cellular offloading; cyclical multiple access; mobile base station; spectrum sharing; UAV communication

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; BASE STATIONS; CELLS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CYTOLOGY; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; THROUGHPUT; TRAJECTORIES; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; CELLULAR OFFLOADING; MOBILE BASE STATION; MULTIPLE ACCESS; SPECTRUM SHARING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85044751991     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2018.2818734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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