Table 1 Main simulation parameters

Radio parameter

RBs

15

Sim. environment

# independent replicas

3

Simulation duration

100

Warmup period

10

UEs

30 for each eNB

eNBs

3

Real-time traffic:

Packet size

50 bytes

Inter-packet time

20 ms (during active periods)

Active period duration

1 s

Silence period duration

5 s

Best-effort traffic

Packet size:

{500, 1000, 1500} bytes

Inter-packet time

100 ms (during active periods)

Active period duration

Weibull distributed, mean 0.8

Silence period duration

Weibull distributed, mean 1.0