Scheduling M2M traffic over LTE uplink of a dense small cell network

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Table 1 Related work comparison

Reference	Scenario	ICI	Model	Allocation metric	QoS metric	Algorithm	Contiguous RBs	Solving time estimation	3GPP compliant sys. level simulator	M2M support
[28]	M/Mu	Y	MIP	Channel-aware	Fairness	H	Y	N	N	N
[29]	M/S	N	N	Channel-aware	QoS class	H	Y	N	N	N
[9]	M/F	Y	Markov chain	Max. throughput	Fairness	H	Y	N	N	N
[30]	M/Mu	Y	N	Multi-cell channel-aware	Fairness	H	N	N	N	N
[31]	M/S	N	N	Channel-aware	Many	H	Y	N	N	N
[13]	M/Mu	N	Search tree	Fairness	Max. profit	O	Y	N	N	N
[32]	M/Mu	N	MIP	Channel-aware	Maximization profit	H	Y	N	Y	N
[33]	M/S/Mu	N	Y	Channel-aware	QoS class	H	N	N	N	N
[34]	M/S	N	Game theory	Max. throughput	Max. throughput	P	N	N	N	N
[35]	S	N	N	Max. throughput	Max. throughput	H	Y	N	N	N
[14]	Mu	N	N	Group-based	Delay	H	NS	N	N	Y
[36]	S	N	N	Channel-aware	Delay	H	N	N	N	Y
[16]	S	N	N	Semi-static	Max. throughput	H	Y	N	Y	Y
[17]	S	N	N	Aware bit-rate	QoS class	H	NS	N	N	Y
[20]	S	N	N	App specific parameters	Quality of video (QoV)	H	NS	N	N	Y
[15]	S	N	N	Channel-aware M2M/H2H	QoS	H	Y	N	Y	Y
[18]	S	N	MIP	Channel-aware M2M/H2H	QoS	H	Y	N	N	Y
[19]	S	N	MIP	Channel-aware M2M/H2H	QoS	H	Y	N	N	Y

M macrocell, F femtocell, S single cell, Mu multi-cell, H heuristic, P polynomial, O optimal, NS not specified