Energy-and spectrum-efficient user association in millimeter-wave backhaul small-cell networks

A Mesodiakaki, F Adelantado, L Alonso… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Macrocells are expected to be densely overlaid by small cells (SCs) to meet increasing
capacity demands. Due to their dense deployment, some SCs will not be connected directly …

Joint user association and power allocation for millimeter-wave ultra-dense networks

HT Nguyen, H Murakami, K Nguyen, K Ishizu… - Mobile Networks and …, 2020 - Springer
To meet the demand of various high-speed data rate services as well as serving an
exponential increment of mobile devices, millimeter-Wave (mmWave) communication in …

Joint design of access and backhaul in densely deployed mmWave small cells

Z Guo, Y Niu, S Mao, R He, N Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid growth of mobile data traffic, the shortage of radio spectrum resource has
become increasingly prominent. Millimeter wave (mmWave) small cells can be densely …

Big wave of the intelligent connected vehicles

Y Liu, X Fang - China Communications, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to meet the exponentially increasing demand on mobile data traffic, self-backhaul
ultra-dense networks (UDNs) combined with millimeter wave (mmWave) communications …

User association in 5G networks: A survey and an outlook

D Liu, L Wang, Y Chen, M Elkashlan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisioned to support the deluge of data traffic
with reduced energy consumption and improved quality of service (QoS) provision. To this …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning based user association for dense mmWave networks

M Sana, A De Domenico… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding the optimal association between users and base stations that maximizes the
network sum-rate is a complex task. This problem is combinatorial and non-convex, and is …

Energy efficient user association and power allocation in millimeter-wave-based ultra dense networks with energy harvesting base stations

H Zhang, S Huang, C Jiang, K Long… - IEEE Journal on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication technologies have recently emerged as an
attractive solution to meet the exponentially increasing demand on mobile data traffic …

Matching theory for backhaul management in small cell networks with mmWave capabilities

O Semiari, W Saad, Z Daw… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing cost-effective and scalable backhaul solutions is one of the main challenges for
emerging wireless small cell networks (SCNs). In this regard, millimeter wave (mmW) …

Performance analysis of cache-enabled millimeter wave small cell networks

Y Zhu, G Zheng, KK Wong, S Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) small-cell networks can provide high regional throughput, but
the backhaul requirement has become a performance bottleneck. This paper proposes a …

Fundamentals of heterogeneous backhaul design—Analysis and optimization

G Zhang, TQS Quek, M Kountouris… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the foreseeable explosive growth of small cell deployment, backhaul has become the
next big challenge in the next generation wireless networks. Heterogeneous backhaul …