Radio Resource Management in Machine-to-Machine Communications-A Survey

• Published in: IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 791 - 828
• Main Authors: Nian Xia, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Chu-Sing Yang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2018
• Subjects: Cellular networks; heterogeneous networks; LTE-A; M2M capillary networks; M2M communications; Machine-to-machine communications; Quality of service; Resource management; RRM; Tutorials; UDNs; Uplink; Wireless communication

In futuristic wireless communications, a massive number of devices need to access networks with diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements. It is estimated that the number of connected devices will exceed 20 billions in 2020, and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices will account for nearly half of to...