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This paper compares two important downlink multicell interference mitigation techniques, namely, large-scale (LS) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and network MIMO. We consider a cooperative wireless cellular system operating in…
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The explosive demands for high quality mobile video services have caused heavy overload to the existing cellular networks. Although the small cell has been proposed to alleviate such a problem, the network operators may not be interested in…
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