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Using the unlicensed band as a supplementary band that usually occupied by Wi-Fi devices (wDevices), a fair sharing can be achieved, and however it may result in reduced network throughput. This work proposes a novel framework to enhance the overall Base Station (BS) performance of both methods in unlicensed band, thus attaining optimal throughput and fair sharing. Firstly, we proposed a channel access scheme for each enhanced method adopts our new procedure that effectively use the scheme parameters (Tattempt, Ttrans, and Tsense) to enhance the BS performance. Secondly, two new approaches are proposed in our analytic model to obtain the channel and manage coexistence in unlicensed band based on the channel states and scheme's parameters. Thirdly, a new formulation is proposed in our dynamic algorithm to obtain the optimal fraction of channel time in unlicensed band (tf*), using the optimal power in licensed band (Pf*(s)). We validated our analysis in terms of fair sharing using simulation. Results show that our proposed framework substantially enhance the overall performance of both enhanced methods in terms of throughput, fraction of channel sharing time, and traffic balancing, which make EDBF and EIFW attractive small cells to be used (one type or both) in the deployments of current and future cellular networks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12720\/jcm.15.12.849-865","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,29]],"date-time":"2020-12-29T07:30:16Z","timestamp":1609227016000},"page":"849-865","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Enhanced Channels Access Methods in HetBands for Single and Multi-RAT Femtocell Networks"],"prefix":"10.12720","author":[{"name":"Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Saif Hikmat","family":"Mousa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mahamod","family":"Ismail","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rosdiadee","family":"Nordin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nor Fadzilah","family":"Abdullah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"4977","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref0","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"[1] V. 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