Research Article
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 |
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