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This letter presents a distributed user association algorithm for the load balancing in heterogeneous networks. In this new method, we formulate the load balancing problem as a max min throughput problem. To solve this problem, we propose a distributed max-throughput algorithm. The main advantages of this algorithm include low computational complexity and few free parameters. Analysis and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is very practical due to its simplicity.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61371087 and “863” Fund under Grants 2014AA01A701.
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Luan, Z., Qu, H., Zhao, J. et al. Low Complexity Distributed Max-Throughput Algorithm for User Association in Heterogeneous Network. Wireless Pers Commun 87, 1147–1156 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-3045-3
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