Title
Upper-level scheduling supporting multimedia traffic in cellular data networks
Abstract
Wireless data networks such as cdma2000 1x EV-DO and UMTS HSDPA use downlink scheduling that exploits channel fading to increase the system throughput. As future wireless networks will eventually support multimedia and data traffic together, we need a proper criterion for scheduling that can count various service requirements such as delay and packet loss. Although some previous approaches proposed opportunistic schedulers at the lower layer, it has not been investigated well whether they are able to meet explicit QoS defined at the upper layer. Hence, in this paper, we develop a hierarchical scheduling model that considers QoS provisioning and the time-varying channel feature separately. We focus on the upper-level QoS scheduling that supports various traffic classes in a unified manner. Supposing that a user gets some satisfaction or utility when served, we introduce a novel concept of opportunity cost, which is defined as the maximum utility loss among users incurred by serving a particular user at the current turn. We obtain each user's net profit by subtracting the opportunity cost from its expected utility, and then select a user with the maximum profit for service. Simulation results reveal that our scheme supports various QoS classes well that are represented by delay and packet loss under various traffic loadings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.comnet.2006.05.007
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scheduling,Quality-of-service,Utility,Opportunity cost
Journal
51
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
Computer Networks
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young-June Choi131132.48
Jin-Ghoo Choi226129.37
Saewoong Bahk31024112.58