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Cell Selection in Wireless Two-Tier Networks: A Context-Aware Matching Game

Networking and Internet Architecture 2015-12-04 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

The deployment of small cell networks is seen as a major feature of the next generation of wireless networks. In this paper, a novel approach for cell association in small cell networks is proposed. The proposed approach exploits new types of information extracted from the users' devices and environment to improve the way in which users are assigned to their serving base stations. Examples of such context information include the devices' screen size and the users' trajectory. The problem is formulated as a matching game with externalities and a new, distributed algorithm is proposed to solve this game. The proposed algorithm is shown to reach a stable matching whose properties are studied. Simulation results show that the proposed context-aware matching approach yields significant performance gains, in terms of the average utility per user, when compared with a classical max-SINR approach.

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@article{arxiv.1512.00539,
  title  = {Cell Selection in Wireless Two-Tier Networks: A Context-Aware Matching Game},
  author = {Nima Namvar and Walid Saad and Behrouz Maham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00539},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 11 figures, Journal article in ICST Wireless Spectrum, 2014

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