Power Saving Scheduling Scheme for Internet of Things over LTE/LTE-Advanced Networks

Table 3

Lookup table for mapping SINR estimate to spectral efficiency.

CQI index	SINR estimate (dB)	Data rate (bps/Hz)
1	−6.7	0.1523
2	−4.7	0.2344
3	−2.3	0.3770
4	0.2	0.6016
5	2.4	0.8770
6	4.3	1.1758
7	5.9	1.4766
8	8.1	1.9141
9	10.3	2.4063
10	11.7	2.7305
11	14.1	3.3323
12	16.3	3.9023
13	18.7	4.5234
14	21.0	5.1152
15	22.7	5.5547