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Radio resource management: approaches and implementations from 4G to 5G and beyond

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Radio resource and its management is one of the key areas of research where technologies, infrastructure and challenges are rapidly changing as 5G system architecture demands a paradigm shift. The previous generation communication technologies require customizations and upgrades as 5G will remain inclusive for significantly long duration. Radio resource management (RRM) schemes that are evolved during LTE/LTE-A network environment period will remain relevant for 5G, however, these schemes must become more intelligent and adaptive for future as features and requirements of network and users will be diverse and highly demanding. In this paper, a comprehensive view is provided upon various aspects of RRM, its challenges and existing schemes. The existing RRM schemes are presented with their respective architecture which has significant impact on the approaches. The problem of RRM is multi-dimensional and different dimensions are presented with their respective solutions such as interference or energy management. In this paper study of legacy and state of the art RRM schemes is presented with their features and inefficiencies in the modern telecommunication era of heterogeneous, ultra-dense, very low latency and highly reliable mobile network. In addition to this various comparison among approaches and schemes are presented for analyzing the solutions. The need of RRM solution is critical and this paper aim is to outline the challenges, existing solutions and directions for research to find and develop smarter and more adaptive schemes for future.

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Akhtar, T., Tselios, C. & Politis, I. Radio resource management: approaches and implementations from 4G to 5G and beyond. Wireless Netw 27, 693–734 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-020-02479-w

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