Table 2 Simulation parameters and values

Site layout

Single cell, omnidirectional antenna

Path loss

ITU-R urban macrocellular NLOS [13]

User location

Uniformly dropped within cell

Operation frequency

2.3 and 3.4 GHz

Thermal noise PSD

-174dBm/Hz

Minimum CQI at cell edge

5 @ 2.3GHz

Available resource blocks

20 @ 2.3GHz, 160 @ 3.4GHz

Requests per slot λ _u

25, Poisson distributed

Requested data rate $R_{b_{u_i}}$

Uniformly distributed(1 kbps to R _b max)

Requested file size $S_{b_{u_i}}$

Uniformly distributed(100 bits to S _b max)

Simulated slots

500