Joint Energy Minimization and Resource Allocation in C-RAN with Mobile Cloud

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 760-770

  Wang, Kezhi ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Magurawalage, Chathura Sarathchandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C RAN; joint energy minimization; mobile cloud computing; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; COMPUTATION-INTENSIVE TASK; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; JOINT RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (MCC); NEXT GENERATION ACCESS NETWORKS; NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85053005814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2016.2522439     Document Type: Article

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