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Radio resource management with QoS guarantees for LTE-A systems: a review focused on employing the multi-objective optimization techniques

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The increasing number of subscribers’ demand has led to the evolution of future wireless networks that support multimedia applications and require ensuring the quality of services it provides. As the radio resource is becoming scarce, it is turning out to be a vital issue that how should the demands for higher data rates with limited resources is met for the evolving long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) systems. Moreover, the efficiency and performance of resource management can be further improved by autonomously assigning and managing resources among various users and applications. We have surveyed various radio resource management (RRM) techniques being used for resource sharing in LTE-A networks that focus on the potential of multi-objective optimization algorithms for achieving desired QoS in LTE-A system. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of RRM techniques, scheduling, and QoS along with a focus on implementing the multi-objective optimization techniques for efficient resource allocation.

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Ali, A.H., Nazir, M. Radio resource management with QoS guarantees for LTE-A systems: a review focused on employing the multi-objective optimization techniques. Telecommun Syst 67, 349–365 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-017-0342-z

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