Opportunistic User Association for Multi-Service HetNets Using Nash Bargaining Solution

Abstract

We propose an opportunistic user association for multi-service HetNets aiming to guarantee quality of service (QoS) of human-to-human (H2H) traffic while providing fair resource allocation for machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic. We classify H2H traffic as primary service and M2M traffic as secondary service. The opportunistic user association is formulated as an optimization problem, which can be resolved by Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS). Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can enable network operators to support fair resource allocation for M2M traffic without jeopardizing QoS of H2H traffic.