Fairness vs. Performance in Rel-13 LTE Licensed Assisted Access

Wireless spectrum being a valuable resource, a large number of both non-profit and for-profit users rely on its unlicensed parts, usually to provide some sort of local area wireless coverage. When the cellular vendors and service providers expressed interest in the unlicensed spectrum, the incumbent community started to fear that the new technology would not respect the existing users. And althoug...