Index

ABS see almost blank subframes

acceptable cells

access control

cell selection

executor

mechanisms

performance

scenarios

Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF)

access networks

access points (AP)

access stratum (AS) protocols

acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) feedbacks

cognitive radios in macro-femto deployments

cross-tier interference management

inter-cell interference management

mobility management

active information

adaptive modulation and coding (AMC)

all-wireless networks of femtocells

approach of study

architecture

challenges

distributed location management

geographic routing and geographic location management

handovers

on location management in generalized HetNets

location management procedures

motivation for study

network entities supporting NoFs

operation

paging procedures

sample protocol stacks

almost blank subframes (ABS)

connected-mode mobility

cross-tier interference management

inter-cell interference management

LTE-Advanced

non-zero power ABS

AMC see adaptive modulation and coding

ANDSF see Access Network Discovery and Selection Function

antenna spatiability domain

AP see access points

AS see access stratum

assigned base stations

autonomous search function

backward compatibility

barred cells

CA see carrier aggregation

capital expenditure (CAPEX)

carrier aggregation (CA)

cross-tier interference management

future HetNet applications

inter-cell interference management

interference management

LTE-Advanced

carrier indicator field ...

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