“…Moreover, the diversification of services with the emergence of internet of things (IoT), machine to machine (M2M), vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications and other technologies require a greater flexibility from the operators to meet all sorts of demands. To cope with the presented challenge, new multiple access techniques, such as the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and new network architectures are being investigated for the fifth generation (5G) of cellular systems, like distributed antenna systems (DAS) [2]- [4], cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) [5], [6], and small cells [7], [8], leading to heterogeneous networks (HetNets) [9], [10] which are needed to match the diverse demands. Although frequency reuse patterns and, hence the network planning, differ from an architecture/technology to another, the common driving idea remains the densification of the network deployment to drastically enhance signal quality by reducing the mean path-loss, the shadowing effect and localizing the inter/intra-cell interference.…”