Effect of Users' Equipment Capability on Utilization of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

This paper investigates the effect of users' device capability on radio resource utilization in a heterogeneous wireless network consisting of a mixed deployment of non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G network. Existing works in the literature have not considered the effect of users' equipment capability on radio resource utilization the 5G network with mixed deployment of NSA and SA options. Consequently, this paper focuses on the above subject and develops a Markov model to investigate the average utilization in a heterogeneous network having subscribers with different users' equipment capabilities. Simulation results show that users' equipment capability significantly affect the average utilization in a heterogenous network. The study underscores the importance of upgrading users' equipment in a heterogeneous network.