A Multistage Control Mechanism for Group-Based Machine-Type Communications in an LTE System

Table 3

Comparison of results between analysis and simulation of Jain’s fairness index (FI) value.

Service class	Gold		Silver		Bronze		Platinum
Simulation or analysis	Sim.	Ana.	Sim.	Ana.	Sim.	Ana.	Sim.	Ana.
MSC mechanism	0.89	0.89	0.80	0.79	0.72	0.70	0.71	0.70
Event-Trigger MTC application	0.89	0.89	0.79	0.79	0.70	0.70	0.70	0.70
LTE standard	0.89	0.89	0.76	0.75	0.67	0.66	0.63	0.63