System and method for resource allocation of a LTE network integrated with femtocells

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:

• instructions to generate a radio air interface that includes a plurality of mobile devices, a plurality of base stations, a subset of base stations including femtocells, and a plurality of resource units, wherein a resource unit includes a plurality of time slots and subcarrier frequencies and a plurality of channels;
• wherein the radio air interface is based at least in part on long term evolution (LTE) specifications;
• instructions to generate resource unit assignments, wherein a resource unit assignment assigns a mobile device to a resource unit to provide a data rate for the mobile device in accordance with a fairness objective;
• and
• instructions to simulate transmission of data using the radio air interface in accordance with the resource unit assignments.

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to:
• identify a plurality of resource units, wherein a resource unit includes a set of time units and subcarriers;
• determine a maximum data rate for a mobile device in a wireless network that includes a plurality of mobile devices, wherein the maximum data rate is determined based at least in part on channel attenuations associated with channels for the resource unit, and wherein the determining is independent of assignments of the mobile devices to physical resource blocks (PRBs);
• assign a mobile device to a PRB based at least in part on the maximum data rate for the mobile device, wherein the assigning is also based at least in part on a fairness constraint for all of the mobile devices;
• and
• simulate data packet transmissions between the mobile device and a second mobile device in accordance with the PRB assigned to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device transmits through a femtocell base station and the second mobile device transmits through a long term evolution (LTE)-based base station.