INDEX
3GPP
3G femtocell sub-system architecture
Access gateway
Additive white gaussian noise (AWGN)
Admission control
Admission control - connection/call
Aggressor
ALOHA
Assignment problem
Attack
Authentication
Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
Auto-configuration
Available interval (AI)
Backhaul link
Backhaul signaling
Backoff
Backward compatibility
Backward induction
Base station association (BSA)
Bargaining game
Bargaining power
Beam subset selection
Best response
Binary power control
Binary search algorithm
Bio-inspired algorithm
Bit error rate (BER)
Bit-loading algorithm
Blocking probability
Branch and bound (BnB)
Broadband evolved femto network (BeFEMTO)
Canonical game
Capital expenditure (CAPEX)
Carrier aggregation (CA)
CDMA
cdma2000
Cell association
Cell selection
Center-zone
Channel model
Channel model - 3GPP
Channel model - ITU
Channel utilization
Closed access mode
Closed subscriber group (CGS)
Closed-form expression
Closed-loop power setting (CLPS)
Cluster head (CH)
Cluster member (CM)
Clustering
Coalition formation
Coalition formation game
Coalition structure
Coalitional game
Coalition-based access control
Coalition-level scheduling
Code-division multiple access (CDMA)
Cognitive cycle
Cognitive radio
Cognitive small cells
Common reference signal (CRS)
Complexity analysis
Component carrier (CC)
Conservative user
Convergence
Convex reformulation
Convexity
Cooperative game
Cooperative interference management
Coordinate ascent search
Core network (CN)
Core solution
Correlated equilibrium
Co-tier interference
Coverage hole
Coverage optimization
Coverage overlap
Cross-layer
Cross-tier interference (CTI)
Cyclic prefix (CP)
Deadzone
Decentralized power control algorithm
Decision epoch
Dense urban deployment model
Differentiated services
Digital subscriber line (DSL)
Distributed interference management
Dominant strategy
Donor eNB (DeNB)
Dropping probability
DSL
Dual-based low complexity algorithm
Dwell time
Dynamic frequency allocation
Dynamic game
Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)
Dynamic self-organizing network planning and management (DSNPM)
Dynamic spectrum management (DSM)
Edge-zone
Ellipsoid
Energy detection
Energy efficiency (EE)
Equilibrium
Ergodic rate
Euclidean norm
Event-driven simulation
Evolutionary game
Evolved node B (eNB)
Evolved packet core (EPC)
Evolved packet system (EPS)
Expected cost value function
Exponentially distributed
Externality
Fairness
Fairness - max-min
Fairness - proportional
Faulty femtocell
Feasibility guarantee algorithm (FGA)
Femto access point (FAP)
Femto base station (FBS)
Femto-aware spectrum arrangement
Femtocell
Femtocell authentication, authorization, and accounting server (F-AAA)
Femtocell gateway (FGW)
Femtocell management system (FMS)
Femtoforum
Fictitious play
Finite-horizon cost function
Fixed mobile convergence
Flat architecture
Follower
Foschini–Miljanic
Fractional frequency reuse (FFR)
Frequency reuse factor (FRF)
Full-frequency reuse
Game theoretic model
General packet radio service (GPRS)
Global positioning system (GPS)
Graph-based heuristic algorithm
Greedy
Green small cell
Guarantee bit rate (GBR)
Handover - horizontal
Handover - vertical
Handover, handoff
Hayward’s approximation
Heterogeneous network (HetNet)
Heuristic algorithm
Hierarchical game
High speed packet access (HSPA)
Home agent/local mobility anchor (HA/LMA)
Home eNodeB gateway (HeNB-GW)
Home evolved node Bs (HeNBs)
House holds (HH)
Hungarian algorithm
Hybrid access mode
Hybrid power control (HPC)
Hyper-Erlang distribution
Incentive compatibility
Incomplete information game
Independent of irrelevant alternatives
Individual-value order
Integer linear program (ILP)
Inter-cell interference (ICI)
Inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC)
Interference avoidance
Interference management
Interference pool
Interference quota
Interference threshold
Interferer discovery
Interior point method
Interior-point method
International telecommunication union (ITU)
Internet of things (IoT)
Internet protocol (IP)
Invariance to equivalent payoff representation
Iterated strict dominance
Iterated weak dominance
Iterative gradient projection algorithm (IGPA)
Joint frequency bandwidth dynamic division, clustering and power control algorithm (JFCPA)
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) conditions, 55-57
Key agreement
Lagrange multiplier
Lagrangian relaxation
Laplace transform (LT)
Leader
Learning
Linear programming (LP)
Log-normal
Long-term evolution (LTE)
Long-term evolution-advanced (LTE-A)
Low duty cycle (LDC)
M/D/1 queueing model
M/G/1/PS queueing model
Machine-to-machine
Macro–femto threshold policy
Margin adaptive (MA)
Marked point process (MPP)
Markov chain
Matching problem
MATLAB
MAX k-CUT problem
Merge-and-split
Metrocell
Microcell
Mixed integer non-linear program (MINLP)
Mixed strategy
Mobility management
Mobility management entity (MME)
Moment generation function (MGF)
Monotonicity
Monte Carlo simulations
Multi-antenna
Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)
Multi-RAT
Multi-tier network
Nakagami
Nash bargaining solution
Nash equilibrium
Neighbor discovery
Network MIMO
Network performance analysis
Non-access stratum (NAS)
Noncooperative game
Non-decreasing property
Non-linear optimization problem
Non-linear program (NLP)
Non-transferable utility (NTU)
NP-hard
Offloading
On-demand resource sharing
Open access mode
Open-loop power setting (OLPS)
Operational expenditure (OPEX)
Operations, administration, and management (OAM)
Opportunistic access
Opportunistic power control (OPC)
Optimal static fractional frequency reuse (OSFFR)
Optimization of femtocell-to-femtocell interference (OPT-FF)
Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
Outage probability
Overlay spectrum access
Over-the-air (OTA)
Packet data network (PDN)
Packet data serving node (PDSN)
Parallel interference cancellation (PIC)
Pareto
Part-by-part analysis
Path-loss
Payoff
Peakedness
Penalization
Penalty function
Perron–Frobenius theorem
Physical cell identity (PCI)
Picocell
Pilot signal
Player
Plug-and-play
Poisson point process (PPP)
Poisson traffic
Potential game/function
Power allocation/control
Power update function (p.u.f.)
Pre-emption strategy
Price competition
Price of anarchy
Pricing
Q-learning algorithm
QoS class identifiers (QCIs)
Quality of service (QoS)
Radio access network (RAN)
Radio base stations
Radio resource management (RRM)
Random access channel (RACH)
Rate adaptive (RA)
Rational
Rayleigh fading
Received signal strength indicator (RSSI)
Reconfiguration resource control module (RCM)
Recursive core
Reference signal received power (RSRP)
Refunding framework
Reinforcement learning
Remote radio heads (RRHs)
Renewal process
Replicator dynamics
Resource allocation and interference management
resource allocation scheme of femtocell-to-femtocell interference (RAFF)
Resource block (RB)
Reuse factor
S1 interface
Sectored fractional frequency reuse
Security
Security gateway (SeGW)
Self-configuration
Self-healing
Self-interest
Self-optimization
Self-organization
Semidefinite matrix
Semi-Markov decision process (SMDP)
Serving gateway
Shapley value
Signal-to-interference-plus-noise (SINR)
Simulated annealing algorithm
Single carrier frequency-division multiple access (SCFDMA)
Small cell
Small cell base station (SBS)
Snap-shot model
Social welfare
Soft fractional frequency reuse
Soft frequency reuse (SFR)
Sorting
Spatial frequency reuse
Spatial opportunity
Spectral efficiency
Spectrum leasing
Stable coalition
Stackelberg game
Standard function
State transition probability
Static game
Step-migration-algorithm (SMA)
Stochastic geometry
Stopping rule
Strategy proof
Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP)
Strictly dominated strategy
Subchannel allocation
Sub-gradient
Successive convex approximation
Successive interference cancellation (SIC)
Superadditivity
Support vector machine (SVM)
Switched multi-element antenna (SMEA)
System architecture evaluation (SAE)
Target-SINR-tracking power control (TPC)
Telecom energy efficiency ratio (TEER)
Teletraffic
Time division duplexing (TDD)
Timing and synchronization
Tragedy of the commons
Transferable utility (TU)
Tree-based genetic algorithm
Truth-revealing dominant strategy equilibrium
Two-dimensional macro–femto threshold policy
Two-sided scalable
Two-sided scalable (2.s.s.) function
Two-tier network
Unavailable interval (UAI)
Underlay spectrum access
Universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS)
User datagram protocol (UDP)
User equipment (UE)
Utilitarian order
Utility
Utility maximization
Value iteration algorithm (VIA)
Variational inequality (VI)
Victim
Voronoi tessellation
Wall-loss parameter
Water-filling
Weakly dominated strategy
Weight-based sub-channel assignment
Worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX)
Worst-case performance
X2 interface
α-fairness