User-centric clustering aided design of ultra dense networks
Yan Lin, Rong Zhang, Lüxi Yang, Chunguo Li, Lajos Hanzo · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 2019
User-centric clustering is becoming an innovative design principle for ultra dense networks (UDNs) that supports dynamically fluctuating adaptive network topologies. In this article, we introduce the user-centric UDN (UC-UDN) architecture and provide a tutorial on user-centric clustering design by generalizing the problem under practical constraints. In the context of user-centric clustering, we briefly present diverse promising methods, representative constraint options as well as provide a pair of case studies on design tradeoffs. Finally, the salient future directions of UC-UDNs are identified.