Table 2 Simulation parameters

Simulation area

5 km × 5 km

Maximum transmission power

Macro BS: 20 W, Micro BS: 1 W

Maximum operational power

Macro BS: 865 W, Micro BS: 38 W

BS height

Macro BS: 32 m, Micro BS: 12.5 m

Intra-cell interference factor

0.01

Channel bandwidth

1.25 MHz

Path loss model

COST 231

Arrival rate Λ(x^k) in source task

0.05×10⁻⁴

Arrival rate Λ(x^k) in target task

0.05×10⁻⁴ to 2×10⁻⁴

MS call holding time 1/[h(x^k)]

100 kB

System load threshold ρ_th

0.6

Minimum bit rate requirement \(\Theta ^{\min }\)

122 Kbps

Exploration parameters of RQoS-UCB

α=0.25 and β=0.32