3GPP LTE系统中无线视频传输调度算法研究

摘要：针对3GPP LTE系统,本文提出了适用于下行链路视频业务的一种新的分组调度算法,即时延优先比例公平调度（Delay First-Proportional Fair Scheduling,DF-PFS）。当需要做出调度决策时,该算法利用每个用户的数据包时延信息和瞬时下行信道条件,在满足用户QoS前提下最大限度地提高系统吞吐量。同时,当用户选择资源块（RB）进行传输后,即从用户集合中将该用户删除,避免接近eNodeB的用户一直占用无线资源,确保了资源分配的公平性。实验仿真结果表明,该算法在丢包率和PSNR性能上优于最大权重时延优先（M-LWDF）算法,在保证用户间公平性前提下,满足了视频业务的QoS要求。     

QoS-aware scheduling algorithm in relay-assisted LTE-A system

This paper details on the uplink scheduling algorithm for long term evolution advanced （LTE-A） system with relays. While emulating quality of service （QoS）-aware services with different bit-rate and delay budget requirements for the upstream direction, a new QoS-aware scheduling algorithm for in-band relays is proposed. In this work, an improved scheduling metric calculation method and bit-rate guarantee scheme is applied. Moreover, this algorithm proposes an efficient scheme for the backhaul link allocation which allows information of the most backlogged users to be transmitted first. Finally, this paper concludes with simulation results to demonstrate how the proposed resource allocation strategy improves the performance of the system.     

New Approximation Formulas for Tighter Bounds of the Q-Function and its Applications

In this paper, we investigate the performance of various multi-user scheduling algorithms over independent and non-identically distributed generalized fading channel and 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) networks. Multi-user scheduling is an important task to be performed in wireless communication networks to share the bandwidth resource effectively between large number of users. In this paper, novel expressions for average BER, average channel capacity and fairness among users are derived for various scenarios such as (1) independent identical fading parameter, independent non identical average SNR channel conditions and (2) both fading parameter and average SNR are independent and non-identically distributed under absolute SNR (AS) scheduling and threshold SNR scheduling. More over the performance of threshold SNR scheduling is compared with AS scheduling and other existing scheduling techniques to identify a suitable scheduling algorithm for LTE networks. Analytical expressions are simulated and validated through MATLAB, and insightful discussions are provided from the numerical results.

     

Coalition-based downlink resource allocation for LTE system with divide-and-conquer approach

To take advantage of the multiuser diversity resulted from the variation in channel conditions among the users,it has become an interesting and challenging problem to efficiently allocate the resources such as subcarriers,bits,and power.Most of current research concentrates on solving the resource-allocation problem for all users together in a centralized way,which brings about high computational complexity and makes it impractical for real system.Therefore,a coalitional game framework for downlink multi-user resource allocation in long term evolution(LTE) system is proposed,based on the divide-and-conquer idea.The goal is to maximize the overall system data rate under the constraints of each user’s minimal rate requirement and maximal transmit power of base station while considering the fairness among users.In this framework,a coalitional formation algorithm is proposed to achieve optimal coalition formation and a two-user bargaining algorithm is designed to bargain channel assignment between two users.The total computational complexity is greatly reduced in comparison with conventional methods.The simulation results show that the proposed algorithms acquire a good tradeoff between the overall system throughout and fairness,compared to maximal rate and max-min schemes.     

Radio resource management with QoS guarantees for LTE-A systems: a review focused on employing the multi-objective optimization techniques

The increasing number of subscribers’ demand has led to the evolution of future wireless networks that support multimedia applications and require ensuring the quality of services it provides. As the radio resource is becoming scarce, it is turning out to be a vital issue that how should the demands for higher data rates with limited resources is met for the evolving long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) systems. Moreover, the efficiency and performance of resource management can be further improved by autonomously assigning and managing resources among various users and applications. We have surveyed various radio resource management (RRM) techniques being used for resource sharing in LTE-A networks that focus on the potential of multi-objective optimization algorithms for achieving desired QoS in LTE-A system. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of RRM techniques, scheduling, and QoS along with a focus on implementing the multi-objective optimization techniques for efficient resource allocation.     

LTE-Advanced载波聚合资源调度算法研究

LTE-Advanced(以下简称LTE-A)作为3GPP LTE技术标准的增强版本,它能够提供更大的系统带宽,可获得更高的峰值数据速率和用户频谱效率。为了支持更多的用户业务,也为了满足IMT-Advanced的性能要求,LTE-A提出了载波聚合（CA）技术,即对若干个带宽满足一定要求的载波进行聚合形成100 M传输带宽,从而可以实现上行500 Mbit/s、下行1 Gbit/s的峰值数据速率。相比于单载波系统,引入载波聚合技术的LTE-A系统属于多载波系统,其资源调度更为复杂,如何分配多个载波下的物理资源成了急需解决的问题。因此,基于LTE-A载波聚合的系统架构和关键技术,介绍了LTE-A载波聚合的资源调度模型;针对目前存在的LTE-A载波聚合资源调度算法,详细分析了每一种算法的优缺点,并做出了总结。     

Effective resource scheduling scheme considering scheduling relevancy for downlink joint transmission system

Coordinated multi-point(CoMP) transmission is a promising technique to improve both cell average and cell edge throughput for long term evolution-advanced(LTE-A).For CoMP joint transmission(CoMP-JT) in heterogeneous scenario,if joint transmission(JT) users are firstly scheduled,other non-JT users will not be allocated sufficient resources,i.e.,scheduling relevancy exists in the users under different cells in the same coordination cluster.However,the CoMP system throughput will decline remarkably,if the impact of scheduling relevancy is not considered.To address this issue,this paper proposes a novel scheduling scheme for CoMP in heterogeneous scenario.The principles of the proposed scheme include two aspects.Firstly,this scheme gives priority to user fairness,based on an extended proportional fairness(PF) scheduling algorithm.Secondly,the throughput of the coordination cluster should be maintained at a high level.By taking the non-CoMP system as a baseline,the proposed scheme is evaluated by comparing to random PF(RPF) and orthogonal PF(OPF) scheme.System-level simulation results indicate that,the proposed scheme can achieve considerable performance gain in both cell average and cell edge throughput.     

基于QoS付费业务的LTE下行跨层分组调度算法

准4G网络（LTE）即将商用会给人们带来更多的方便,以至于大量用户在日常生活中使用更多的QoS业务,这样系统会出现了拥塞和调度不够合理的情况,影响了高优先级业务的丢包率、时延和公平性。通过对LTE下行跨层分组调度各种算法的研究分析,从时延、丢包率、吞吐量和公平性等因素入手,在原有的比例公平性调度算法（PF）上进行改进,加入了补偿因子和付费权重值,使得改进型跨层调度算法,在吞吐量有一定提高的情况下,有效地降低了高优先级业务的丢包率和时延,并确保了高优先级业务的公平性。     

Base on the Public Scientific Quality Improvement Research on Risk Early Warning of Online Shopping

LTE-A network offers data rates up to 1 Gbps which is 10?×?faster than LTE catering to growing demand of users. LTE improves user experience by reducing latency and increasing bandwidth efficiency. The emerging services and key enhancements such as Further Enhancement of Downlink Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), Heterogeneous Networks, and Carrier Aggregation (CA) in LTE-A has improved performance of LTE-A networks. Scheduling optimization still remains one of the biggest challenges in high speed data transmission network. Scheduling in LTE-A networks are performed at various levels; User Equipment (UE), Serving Gateway (SGW), Air Interface and eNodeB. Remote Radio Head (RRH) is an extremely specialized device installed at antenna of eNodeB for optical to electrical signal conversion, amplification of signals and Uplink and Downlink Scheduling. Resource scheduling at Antenna of eNodeB module is constituted as a significant research optimization area. This paper proposes a soft computing based scheduler for RRH. Results of proposed technique are evaluated on Fairness Index, Throughput, Spectral Efficiency and Rank Indicator Distribution. The proposed algorithm aims to improve performance of scheduling. From experimental results, it is observed that proposed model succeeds to achieve significantly better performance as compared to state-of-art algorithms.

     

An overview of spectrum sensing techniques for cognitive LTE and LTE-A radio systems

Advanced communication systems, such as long term evolution (LTE) and LTE-advanced (LTE-A) systems, promise to increase the number of users with high-speed data exchange. However, it leads to spectrum scarcity because of the huge size of data exchange with limited spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) technique is considered the best solution for this spectrum scarcity problem. Spectrum sensing (SS), one of the CR techniques is used to detect the spectrum hole of primary user (PU) without interference with PU. In this paper, several SS approaches for LTE and LTE-A systems are investigated in the CR system. These SS approaches are based on two techniques, namely energy detection and cyclostationary feature detection techniques. The first technique includes four approaches of auto-correlation based advanced energy, time domain detection, Welch periodogram and two-stage model algorithms, while the second technique contains two approaches, namely pilot induced cyclostationary and second order cyclostationary algorithms. According to the analysis, the two-stage model and the second order cyclostationary algorithms are better than the other algorithms because they produce accurate results at the expense of system complexity. Hence, in general a good SS algorithms would require some trade-off between complexity and accuracy.     

Energy and Latency-Aware Scheduling Under Channel Uncertainties in LTE Networks for Massive IoT

The machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is an enabler technology for internet of things (IoT) that provides communication between machines and devices without human intervention. One of the main challenges in IoT is managing a large number of machine-type communications co-existing with the human to human (H2H) or human type communications. Long term evolution (LTE) and LTE-advanced (LTE-A) technologies due to their inherent characteristics like high capacity and flexibility in data access management are appropriate choices for M2M/IoT systems. In this paper, a two-phase intelligent scheduling mechanism based on interval type-2 fuzzy logic to (1) satisfy QoS requirements, (2) ensure fair resource allocation and (3) control energy level of devices for coexistence of M2M/H2H traffics in LTE-A networks, is presented. The proposed interval type-2 fuzzy Logic mechanism enhances data traffic efficiency by predicting and handling the network uncertainties. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of various metrics such as delay, throughput, and bandwidth utilization.     

Efficient allocation of LTE downlink spectral resource to improve fairness and throughput

For the current generation of cellular communication systems, long‐term evolution (LTE) has been the major protocol to support high‐speed data transmission. It is critical to allocate downlink spectral resource in LTE, namely, resource blocks (RBs), but the issue is not well addressed in the standard. Therefore, the paper develops an efficient RB allocation algorithm with 4 mechanisms to improve both fairness and throughput in LTE. For fairness concern, our RB allocation algorithm uses a resource‐reservation mechanism to prevent cell‐edge user equipments from starvation, and a credit‐driven mechanism to keep track of the amount of resource given to each user equipment. For throughput concern, it adopts both weight‐assignment and RB‐matching mechanisms to allocate each RB to a packet according to its flow type and length. Through simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed RB allocation algorithm can significantly increase both throughput and fairness while reducing packet dropping and delays of real‐time flows, as compared with previous methods.     

Cross-layer scheduling with fairness for multi-user OFDM system:a restless bandit approach

In OFDM-based System such as long term evolution(LTE),the scheduling scheme plays an essential role in not only improving the capacity of system,but also guarantee the fairness among the user equipments(UEs).However,most existing work about scheduling only considers the current throughput in physical layer.Thus in this paper,a cross-layer scheduling with fairness based on restless bandit(CSFRB)scheme with the 'indexability' property is proposed for the multi-user orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing(O...     

一种新的LTE系统下行功率控制算法

从提高系统吞吐量性能和公平性性能角度出发,提出一种新的LTE系统下行功率控制算法。该算法考虑扇区边缘用户受到的不同衰落,首先为边缘资源块分配发射功率,然后采用调度算法为边缘用户分配资源块,最后为中心资源块分配发射功率。仿真结果表明,该算法获得的系统吞吐量性能和公平性性能均优于传统算法。     

Cooperative MIMO precoding for the LTE-A D2D communications

In the current deployed 4G long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) system, it adopts the precoding matrix to reduce the effect of the channel fading and improve the system capacity. Besides, a new technique of the device to device (D2D) communication enables the mobile devices using the LTE radio spectrum directly to communicate with each other. In this paper, two precoding selection methods are proposed for the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) D2D communications. The proposed methods adopt the subset and iterative concept to complete the precoding selection. Besides, a resource selection method is also provided for the D2D transmitter to select an appropriate spectrum resource among the nearby users served by the base station. Combined the resource selection with the proposed D2D precoding selection methods, both simulations and experiments demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed methods.     

Downlink Radio Resource Management Through CoMP and Carrier Aggregation for LTE-Advanced Network

Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) offers several new technologies to improve the performance of the user. However, poor received signal and interference from adjacent cells in the cell-edge area can reduce the efficiency of using individual technology. Therefore, the cell-edge users have lower throughput compared to the other users in the cell and LTE-A standard. An efficient downlink radio resource management scheme is proposed in this paper by combining the coordinated multipoint transmission and reception technique along with carrier aggregation technique to achieve higher throughput for the cell-edge user and better overall performance. The proposed method jointly transmits multiple component carriers to the cell-edge user from different cells to increase the bandwidth, strengthen the received signal, and reduce the interference while it satisfies several constraints. Modified largest weighted delay first packet scheduling algorithm is deployed for resource allocation, which takes into account the delay parameters, the probability of packet loss, and data rates of the user. The obtained system-level simulation results show that the proposed method significantly enhances the throughput performances, spectral efficiency, and fairness index, compared with the existing conventional methods.

     

Nash bargaining solution based joint time‐frequency‐code‐power resource management algorithm for TD‐LTE systems

This paper presents a joint time‐frequency‐code‐power resource management algorithm based on the Nash bargaining solution in time‐division long term evolution systems. First, a joint radio resource allocation scheme at the time, frequency, code and power domain simultaneously is provided for the time‐division long term evolution system. Second, the proposed algorithm is modeled as a cooperative game under the constraints of each user's minimal rate requirement and available resources, for example, the maximal transmitting power. To reduce the computational complexity, the joint resource allocation algorithm is divided into time‐frequency‐code and power domain resource allocation. Also, we could approach the Pareto optimal rate as closely as possible by iterations. Simulation results show that compared with the other resource allocation algorithms, the proposed algorithm has achieved a good tradeoff between the overall system throughput and fairness among different users. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

LTE-Advanced中继系统中一种公平的下行资源分配机制

LTE-Advanced(LTE-A)系统引入中继后,带来了如提高频谱效率、拓展网络覆盖等优点,但是也给资源分配带来了更多的挑战。针对LTE-A中继系统的下行资源分配问题,在资源足够使用的情况下,提出一种在eNB和中继功率受限且用户数据速率限制的条件下,以权衡系统吞吐量和用户公平性为目标的资源分配机制。通过仿真验证表明,该算法较好地权衡了系统吞吐量和用户公平性,并且能满足用户速率要求。     

QoS‐aware LTE‐A downlink scheduling algorithm: A case study on edge users

4G/LTE‐A (Long‐Term Evolution—Advanced) is the state of the art wireless mobile broadband technology. It allows users to take advantage of high Internet speeds. It makes use of the OFDM technology to offer high speed and provides the system resources both in time and frequency domain. A scheduling algorithm running on the base station holds the allocation of these resources. In this paper, we investigate the performance of existing downlink scheduling algorithms in two ways. First, we look at the performance of the algorithms in terms of throughput and fairness metrics. Second, we suggest a new QoS‐aware fairness criterion, which accepts that the system is fair if it can provide the users with the network traffic speeds that they demand and evaluate the performance of the algorithms according to this metric. We also propose a new QoS‐aware downlink scheduling algorithm (QuAS) according to these two metrics, which increases the QoS‐fairness and overall throughput of the edge users without causing a significant degradation in overall system throughput when compared with other schedulers in the literature.     

A low-complexity beamforming-based scheduling to downlink OFDMA/SDMA systems with multimedia traffic

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity beamforming-based scheduling scheme utilizing a semi-orthogonal user selection (SUS) algorithm in downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)/space division multiple access (SDMA) systems to support multimedia traffic. One of the challenges in the multi-dimensional (space, time, and frequency) radio resource allocation problem for OFDMA/SDMA systems is its high complexity, especially to simultaneously satisfy the quality of services (QoS) requirements for various traffic classes. In the literature, the SUS algorithm is usually applied to the single-class traffic environment, but extending the SUS algorithm to the multimedia environment is not straightforward because of the need to prioritize the real-time (RT) users and the non-real-time (NRT) users. To solve this problem, we propose the concept of urgency value to guarantee the fairness of the NRT as well as the best effort (BE) users while satisfying the delay requirement for the RT users. Simulation results show that, when traffic load is greater than 0.5, the proposed scheduling algorithm can improve the fairness performance by more than 100% over the most recently proposed algorithms.