Title
Distributed User Association in Energy Harvesting Small Cell Networks: A Probabilistic Model.
Abstract
We consider a distributed downlink user association problem in a small cell network, where small cells obtain the required energy for providing wireless services to users through ambient energy harvesting. Since energy harvesting is opportunistic in nature, the amount of harvested energy is a random variable, without any a priori known characteristics. Moreover, since users arrive in the network randomly and require different wireless services, the energy consumption is a random variable as well. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework to mathematically model and analyze the random behavior of energy harvesting and energy consumption in dense small cell networks. Furthermore, as acquiring (even statistical) channel and network knowledge is very costly in a distributed dense network, we develop a bandit-theoretical formulation for distributed user association when no information is available at users
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
CoRR
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1601.07795
8
0.46
References 
Authors
46
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Setareh Maghsudi115416.41
Ekram Hossain28586453.41