… In Section 3, we develop our optimal joint user association, BH routing and BS and BH
link switch off policy for 5G networks with mmWave mesh BH. We also develop a fast online …

… multihop topologies using high capacity backhaul wireless links in the … user association,
routing in the multihop backhaul and decides to power on or off the small cells to serve the user …

… framework for user association that jointly considers radio access and backhaul performance.
… Our results also highlight some shortcomings of backhaul Layer 2 routing and suggest the …

… This backhaul solution will most probably be composed of … jointly solves the user association
and backhaul routing problem in … of both the access and backhaul links, while taking into …

… route is available for each SC. However, in such 5G networks consisting of mesh BH links, the
BH routing … study the joint problem of user association and BH traffic routing with the aim of …

… the user association, the backhaul routing paths in the wireless mesh and the switching off
of the unused links with the aim of minimizing the power consumption. The robust strategy is …

… framework for user association that jointly considers radio access and backhaul network …
We denote as routing path Bh(i) the set of all backhaul links j ∈ Bh along which traffic is …

… In such cases, providing isolated routes and caching to reduce latency, and allocating more
… backhauling, resource allocation for access and backhaul links, and user association, all of …

… by the designated node (router) in layer k to which the wireless BH link in connected. The
parameter a (in μsec) represents the trafficindependent processing delay of the router, and b (…

… We note that the association variables are somehow related to the routing variables in [10],
as we also select the paths of the user requests when we determine the user association …