Resource Allocation in Unlicensed Long Term Evolution HetNets

Table of Contents List of Abbreviations List of Symbols 1 Introduction 1.1 Long Term Evolution (LTE) 1.2 Research challenges 1.3 Resource allocation in Unlicensed LTE 1.4 Outline References 2 Radio access management of Unlicensed LTE 2.1 Introduction 2.2 System model 2.3 LBT based radio access of Unlicensed LTE 2.4 Performance analysis of LBT-based radio access 2.5 Performance evaluation 2.6 Summery References 3 Game theory based spectrum sharing 3.1 Introduction 3.2 System model with unlicensed LTE 3.3 Problem Formulation for coexistence 3.4 Game theory based resource allocation 3.5 Performance evaluation 3.6 Summery References 4 Traffic offloading from licensed band to unlicensed band 4.1 Introduction 4.2 System model for heterogeneous networks 4.3 Opportunistic traffic offloading based on network formation game 4.4 Performance evaluation 4.5 Summary References 6 Conclusions and Future Works 6.1 Conclusions 6.2 Future Research Directions