Student Project Allocation Model for LTE-Unlicensed

Abstract

The use of LTE-Unlicensed is a promising approach to aggregate both licensed and unlicensed spectrum bands, in an effort to meet the QoS of emerging wireless services. In this chapter, we investigate the problem of carrier aggregation between licensed and unlicensed spectrum by deploying LTE-Unlicensed enabled micro-cell base stations, which have access to the unlicensed spectrum, to provide cellular users a more reliable and efficient transmission. We address the unlicensed resource allocation problem by modeling it as a student-project allocation matching game. In addition, a post-matching procedure of resource re-allocation is introduced to guarantee unlicensed users’ QoS, as well as the system-wide stability. The simulation evaluation shows the effectiveness and efficiency of our investigated matching-based approach.