RAT Selection in 3GPP-Based Cellular Heterogeneous Networks: From Theory to Practical Implementation

This paper develops common radio resource management (CRRM) concepts, which allow exploiting trunking gains of heterogeneous cellular 3GPP-based networks through smart radio access technology selection mechanisms. The presented framework covers the complete development cycle: firstly the theoretical conception of the algorithmic solution also supported by means of an analytical approach, secondly the performance assessment and finally, the algorithm implementation definition on real systems.

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