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The major considerations in designing wireless networks are spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Though it is desirable to enhance both SE and EE, however, a trade-off exists between the two. To deal with this trade-off, a new metric called the resource efficiency (RE) has already been proposed in the literature. With RE as a performance evaluation metric, a balance can be struck between the SE and EE. Resource allocation with RE as an objective has already been proposed in the literature for a conventional cellular network. However, RE for a small cell network (a.k.a. heterogeneous network) has not been investigated yet. Small cells increase the frequency reuse factor, thus significantly enhancing the capacity and coverage of cellular networks. While already being embraced into LTE, the small cell technology will be one of the main features of the 5G cellular networks. In this paper, we …