# Interference Aware Resource Control for 6G-Enabled Expanded IoT Networks
## 3 Interference-Aware Scheduling of APs and Nodes
### Proposed Algorithm
and A.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors are thankful to the Deanship of Scientific Research at Najran University for funding this work under the Research Groups Funding program grant code (NU/RG/SERC/12/9). Not applicable. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest to report regarding the present study. The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l}
5G & Fifth generation \\
6G & Sixth generation \\ IoT & Internet of Things \\ AP & Access points \\ UE & User equipment \\ CPU & Central processing unit \\ IRSs & Intelligent reflecting surfaces \\ MIMO & Multiple input multiple output \\ SWIPT & Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer \\ NMSE & Normalized mean square error \\ SE & Spectral efficiency \\ QoS & Quality of service \\ SINR & Signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio \\ CDF & Cumulative distribution function \\ MR & Maximal ratio \\ PRZF & Partial regularized zero forcing \\ LPMMSE & Local partial minimum mean square error \\ PMMSE & Partial minimum mean square error \\ \end{tabular} 

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