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A. S. Shafigh and S. Glisic, "Two-Step Matching Game for Minimizing Hand-Off Failure Risk in Heterogeneous Networks," GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Singapore, 2017, pp. 1-7. doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254721

Two-step matching game for minimizing hand-off failure risk in heterogeneous networks

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Author: Shams Shafigh, Alireza1; Glisic, Savo1
Organizations: 1Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.8 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2018080733496
Language: English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017
Publish Date: 2018-08-07
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Abstract

Small cell base stations deployment is a promising approach to offload traffic from macrocell, and improve the network capacity and coverage. However, interference management and providing seamless hand offs between access points (APs) for user equipments (UEs) remain main technical challenges especially in dense heterogeneous wireless networks. In this paper, a novel context-aware resource allocation (CARE) mechanism is proposed based on an adaptive space-time beamforming (ASTB) scheme, where different beam-widths (in time and space domains) are allocated to UEs according to their performance preferences with respect to delay tolerance, throughput, energy consumption and link robustness to the potential hand-off failure. We formulate CARE as a two-step matching game consisting of two many-to-one sub-matching games with externality for access and backhaul networks. We introduce two-step stable matching and Nash stability concepts as solutions of CARE. Our numerical results show that CARE with space-time beamforming provides at least two times higher capacity for UEs in comparison to space beamforming while the average delay and complexity are significantly decreased.

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Series: IEEE Global Communications Conference
ISSN: 2334-0983
ISSN-E: 2576-6813
ISSN-L: 2334-0983
ISBN: 978-1-5090-5019-2
ISBN Print: 978-1-5090-5020-8
Pages: 1 - 7
Article number: 17505989
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254721
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254721
Host publication: 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Singapore 4-8 Decempber 2017
Conference: IEEE Global Communications Conference
Type of Publication: A4 Article in conference proceedings
Field of Science: 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
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Funding: This work has been performed in the framework of Future Networks project.
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