Spread-spectrum techniques for fiber-fed microcellular networks

It is well known that for a specified radio capacity, the peak performance [such as the minimum bit error rate (BER) or probability of outage] of subcarrier multiplexing (SCM)-based fiber-fed microcellular systems is limited by the nonlinearity of the optical source. Conversely, for a specified performance, the maximum radio capacity is restricted by the source nonlinearity. It is the goal of this paper to examine the robustness of a code-division multiple-access (CDMA)-based system in the presence of these nonlinearities. This is done by comparing the error and outage probabilities of a CDMA-based system to that of a conventional SCM system, which utilizes frequency-division multiple access (FDMA). It is shown that a CDMA system can relax the bounds on the performance or capacity. However, this improvement is obtained at the expense of large chunks of bandwidth. An alternative hybrid CDMA/FDMA approach is examined, wherein the inherent benefits of both CDMA and FDMA techniques are utilized. Performance evaluation shows that the hybrid system achieves the same system requirements in a more spectrally efficient manner     

Adaptive Resource Allocation for MC‐CDMA and OFDMA in Reconfigurable Radio Systems

This paper studies the uplink resource allocation for multiple radio access (MRA) in reconfigurable radio systems, where multiple‐input and multiple‐output (MIMO) multicarrier‐code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA) and MIMO orthogonal frequency‐division multiple access (OFDMA) networks coexist. By assuming multi‐radio user equipment with network‐guided operation, the optimal resource allocation for MRA is analyzed as a cross‐layer optimization framework with and without fairness consideration to maximize the uplink sum‐rate capacity. Numerical results reveal that parallel MRA, which uses MC‐CDMA and OFDMA networks concurrently, outperforms the performance of each MC‐CDMA and OFDMA network by exploiting the multiuser selection diversity.     

QoS based outer loop power control for enhanced reverse links of CDMA systems

Outer loop power control (OLPC) is also an important radio resource management (RRM) algorithm in dedicated channels of code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. Proposed is a new OLPC algorithm that also takes HARQ into consideration. The proposed algorithm can guarantee the QoS and help the system to greatly decrease average physical layer delays with similar relative throughput to the conventional algorithm.     

The capacity of a spread spectrum CDMA system for cellular mobileradio with consideration of system imperfections

There has been much interest in the use of spread spectrum code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques for cellular mobile radio. To date, spread spectrum has been used mainly for military applications, in which the inherent transmission security and immunity to deliberate jamming are important. Spread spectrum systems, however, possess various other features such as multiple access and multipath rejection capability, which make their use attractive within the mobile radio environment. However, the current interest has been principally motivated by the work of Gilhousen et al. (see IEEE Trans. Vehic. Technol., vol.VT-40, no.2, p.303, 1991) in which it is claimed that the CDMA option may offer capacity improvement over more conventional frequency and time division multiple access, FDMA and TDMA, techniques. Within this paper, the relative capacities of a basic FDMA and CDMA system are examined. It is shown that, in the absence of capacity-enhancing features such as voice activity detection and cell sectorization, the capacity of each system is comparable. The paper then assesses the sensitivity of the CDMA system to typical propagation conditions, power control errors, and realistic antenna patterns and shows that the capacity of a CDMA system may be significantly reduced under nonideal conditions     

Advantages of CDMA and spread spectrum techniques over FDMA andTDMA in cellular mobile radio applications

A unified theoretical method for the calculation of the radio capacity of multiple-access schemes such as FDMA (frequency-division multiple access), TDMA (time-division multiple access), CDMA (code-division multiple access) and SSMA (spread-spectrum multiple access) in noncellular and cellular mobile radio systems is presented for AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channels. The theoretical equivalence of all the considered multiple-access schemes is found. In a fading multipath environment, which is typical for mobile radio applications, there are significant differences between these multiple-access schemes. These differences are discussed in an illustrative manner revealing several advantages of CDMA and SSMA over FDMA and TDMA. Novel transmission and reception schemes called coherent multiple transmission and coherent multiple reception are briefly presented     

Performance of a cellular hybrid C/TDMA mobile radio systemapplying joint detection and coherent receiver antenna diversity

For future mobile radio systems, an appropriately chosen multiple access technique is a critical issue. Multiple access techniques presently under discussion are code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), and hybrids of both. In the paper, a hybrid C/TDMA system using joint detection (JD-C/TDMA) with coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD) at the base station (BS) receiver is proposed. Some attractive features of the JD-C/TDMA system are the possibility to flexibly offer voice and data services with different bit rates, soft capacity, inherent frequency and interferer diversity, and high system capacity due to JD. Furthermore, due to JD, a cluster size equal to 1 can be realized without needing soft handover. The single cell E_b/N₀ performance and the interference situation in a cellular environment of the uplink of a JD-C/TDMA mobile radio system with CRAD is investigated in detail. It is shown that the cellular spectrum efficiency is remarkably high, taking values up to 0.2 bit/s/Hz/BS in the uplink, depending on the actual transmission conditions     

On the radio capacity of TDMA and CDMA for broadband wireless packet communications

Studies of the capacity of cellular systems, stated in terms of the admissible number of remote users, have generally been limited to voice telephony. We address the problem of comparing the interference-limited performance of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) and time-division multiple-access (TDMA) systems in a packet-switched environment. The objective is to determine whether the capacity advantages claimed for circuit-switched CDMA still apply in a packet-switched environment, where the natural time diversity of bursty transmission may be a significant factor. Under a set of specific assumptions about the wireless environment (including path loss, shadow fading, multipath delay spread, cochannel interference, power control, and coding), we evaluate the number of users that can be admitted to the system while maintaining some desired quality-of-service (QoS) level. Four different classes of users with different characteristics and requirements are considered. The system capacity is found to depend significantly on the QoS objectives, which might be stated in terms of availability of some specified signal-to-interference level, packet-loss rate, or mean tolerable delay. The main finding is that strict requirements imposed on the radio access level tend to favor CDMA, whereas if some form of packet recovery is allowed at the higher layers (implying a relaxed set of requirements on the radio interface), then a somewhat higher capacity may be achieved by TDMA.     

Design and analysis of cellular mobile communications system basedon DQRAP/CDMA MAC protocol

Future third-generation mobile communication systems will need multi-access control (MAC) protocols suitable for multimedia code division multiple access (CDMA) radio communications. Distributed queueing random access protocol (DQRAP)/CDMA is a general purpose MAC protocol oriented to the CDMA environment. Analytical model expressions and computer simulations have shown its capacity to achieve near-optimum performance under heterogeneous traffic scenarios in a unicellular environment. A cellular environment has been designed to verify that DQPAP/CDMA maintains its near-optimum performance in a packet switched mobile communication system. A new handover technique based on the protocol is proposed to further improve the system performance     

Optimal Joint Session Admission Control in Integrated WLAN and CDMA Cellular Networks with Vertical Handoff

This paper considers optimizing the utilization of radio resources in a heterogeneous integrated system consisting of two different networks: a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a wideband code division multiple access (CDMA) network. We propose a joint session admission control scheme for multimedia traffic that maximizes overall network revenue with quality of service (QoS) constraints over both the WLAN and the CDMA cellular networks. The WLAN operates under the IEEE 802.11e medium access control (MAC) protocol, which supports QoS for multimedia traffic. A novel concept of effective bandwidth is used in the CDMA network to derive the unified radio resource usage, taking into account both physical layer linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) receivers and characteristics of the packet traffic. Numerical examples illustrate that the network revenue earned in the proposed joint admission control scheme is significantly larger than that when the individual networks are optimized independently with no vertical handoff between them. The revenue gain is also significant over the scheme in which vertical handoff is supported, but admission control is not done jointly. Furthermore, we show that the optimal joint admission control policy is a randomized policy, i.e., sessions are admitted to the system with probabilities in some states     

Quality-of-service provisioning and efficient resource utilization in CDMA cellular communications

One of the major challenges in supporting multimedia services over Internet protocol (IP)-based code-division multiple-access (CDMA) wireless networks is the quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning with efficient resource utilization. Compared with the circuit-switched voice service in the second-generation CDMA systems (i.e., IS-95), heterogeneous multimedia applications in future IP-based CDMA networks require more complex QoS provisioning and more sophisticated management of the scarce radio resources. This paper provides an overview of the CDMA-related QoS provisioning techniques in the avenues of packet scheduling, power allocation, and network coordination, summarizes state-of-the-art research results, and identifies further research issues.     

Dynamic resource scheduling (DRS): a multimedia QoS framework for W‐CDMA

Multi‐media support is an important feature of third generation (3G) wireless communication systems, and Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue, as in any other networking environment. In this paper, the QoS issues in the wireless last‐mile is investigated for 3G systems based on Wideband‐Code division multiple access (W‐CDMA). Supporting multiple rates in the CDMA environment introduces the power assignment problem, which is coupled with the bandwidth and error QoS parameters. Also, multi‐media traffic flows should be classified and serviced in such a way to provision delay guarantees. In this paper, a new framework, namely dynamic resource scheduling (DRS), is described and extensively studied. In order to serve multi‐media services with different requirements, a family of nine algorithms has been developed within the DRS framework. These algorithms can be categorized with respect to single or prioritized queuing architectures, fixed or variable rate bandwidth and power allocation, and variable spreading gain or multi‐code spreading strategies. The paper presents the performance of the DRS algorithms in comparison with each other and with conventional scheduled‐CDMA (S‐CDMA) and proposed schemes in the W‐CDMA standard. The performance for error and throughput QoS provisioning and power control dynamics are explored; advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the algorithms are discussed. The DRS framework is concluded to be a promising QoS architecture, with a simple, flexible, scalable structure that can be configured according to a given traffic scenario. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An integrated CDMA code assignment model for voice and data traffic in wireless communications

Wireless personal communication requires a provision of integrated services of multimedia traffic, such as voice and data, over the radio link. The multiple access protocols of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) techniques have been widely investigated in the recent literature. This paper presents an innovative multiple access protocol for CDMA-based wireless communication systems by fully utilizing the characteristics of voice and data traffic. In other words, a voice terminal can reserve a spreading code to transmit packets in multiple talk spurts, while a data terminal can transmit packets by either using the unassigned codes or borrowing the codes from the voice terminals during their silent periods. We build mathematical models for voice and data subsystems, respectively. Two performance parameters, the average dropping probability for voice packets and the average transmission delay for data packets, are derived based on the equilibrium point analysis. The effects of the two performance parameters on the system performance are discussed by varying the code reservation intervals of the voice terminals.     

A cellular neural network and utility-based radio resource scheduler for multimedia CDMA communication systems

The paper proposes a cellular neural network and utility (CNNU)-based radio resource scheduler for multimedia CDMA communication systems supporting differentiated quality-of-service (QoS). Here, we define a relevant utility function for each connection, which is its radio resource function weighted by a QoS requirement deviation function and a fairness compensation function. We also propose cellular neural networks (CNN) to design the utility-based radio resource scheduler according to the Lyapunov method to solve the constrained optimization problem. The CNN is powerful for complicated optimization problems and has been proved that it can rapidly converge to a desired equilibrium; the utility-based scheduling algorithm can efficiently utilize the radio resource for system, keep the QoS requirements of connections guaranteed, and provide the weighted fairness for connections. Therefore, the CNNUbased scheduler, which determines a radio resource assignment vector for all connections by maximizing an overall system utility, can achieve high system throughput and keep the performance measures of all connections to meet their QoS requirements. Simulation results show that the CNNU-based scheduler attains the average system throughput greater than the EXP [9] and the HOLPRO [5] scheduling schemes by an amount of 23% and 33%, respectively, in the QoS guaranteed region.     

Characterization of soft handoff in CDMA systems

Many analytical approaches have been proposed for handoff analysis based on hard handoff in mobile communication systems. In code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with soft handoff, mobile stations (MSs) within a soft handoff region (SR) use multiple radio channels and receive their signals from multiple base stations (BSs) simultaneously. Therefore, the SRs should be considered for handoff analysis in CDMA systems. An analytical model for soft handoff in CDMA systems is developed by introducing an overlap region between adjacent cells and the handoff call attempt rate and the channel holding times are derived. Applying these results to a nonprioritized CDMA system, the effects of soft handoff and the mean cell residual time are investigated and compared with hard handoff     

Joint packet scheduling and dynamic base station assignment for CDMA data networks

In current code division multiple access (CDMA) based wireless systems, a base station (BS) schedules packets independently of its neighbours, which may lead to resource wastage and the degradation of the system's performance. In wireless networks, in order to achieve an efficient packet scheduling, there are two conflicting performance metrics that have to be optimized: throughput and fairness. Their maximization is a key goal, particularly in next-generation wireless networks. This paper proposes joint packet scheduling and BS assignment schemes for a cluster of interdependent neighbouring BSs in CDMA-based wireless networks, in order to enhance the system performance through dynamic load balancing. The proposed schemes are based on sector subdivision in terms of average required resource per mobile station and utility function approach. The fairness is achieved by minimizing the variance of the delay for the remaining head-of-queue packets. Inter-cell and intra-cell interferences from scheduled packets are also minimized in order to increase the system capacity and performance. The simulation results show that our proposed schemes perform better than existing schemes available in the open literature. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cross-layer radio resource allocation in packet CDMA wireless mobile networks

An efficient radio resource allocation scheme is crucial for guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) requirements and fully utilizing the scarce radio resources in wireless mobile networks. Most of previous studies of radio resource allocation in traditional wireless networks concentrates on network layer connection blocking probability QoS. In this paper, we show that physical layer techniques and QoS have significant impacts on network layer QoS. We use a concept of cross-layer effective bandwidth to measure the unified radio resource usage taking into account both physical layer linear minimum-mean square error (LMMSE) receivers and varying statistical characteristics of the packet traffic in code devision multiple access (CDMA) networks. We demonstrate the similarity between traditional circuit-switched networks and packet CDMA networks, which enables rich theories developed in traditional wireless mobile networks to be used in packet CDMA networks. Moreover, since both physical layer signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) QoS and network layer connection blocking probability QoS are considered simultaneously, we can explore the tradeoff between physical layer QoS and network layer QoS in packet CDMA networks. This work is supported by Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Please address all correspondence to Professor Vikram Krishnamurthy at the above address. Fei Yu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2003. From 2002 to 2004, he was with Ericsson (in Lund, Sweden), where he worked on the research and development of dual mode UMTS/GPRS handsets. From 2005, he has been working in Silicon Valley at a start-up, where he conducts research and development in the areas of advanced wireless communication technologies and new standards. After completing the PhD, he has been a research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include cross-layer optimization, QoS provisioning and security in wireless networks. Vikram Krishnamurthy (S’90-M’91-SM’99-F’05) was born in 1966. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1988, and Ph.D. from the Australian National University, Canberra, in 1992. Since 2002, he has been a professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Prior to this he was a chaired professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests span several areas including ion channels and nanobiology, stochastic scheduling and control, statistical signal processing and wireless telecommunications. Dr. Krishnamurthy has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions Nanobioscience, IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems II, Systems and Control Letters and European Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He was guest editor of a special issue of IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience, March 2005 on bio-nanotubes.     

Fair resource allocation with guaranteed statistical QoS for multimedia traffic in wideband CDMA cellular network

A dynamic fair resource allocation scheme is proposed to efficiently support real-time and non-real-time multimedia traffic with guaranteed statistical quality of service (QoS) in the uplink of a wideband code-division multiple access (CDMA) cellular network. The scheme uses the generalized processor sharing (GPS) fair service discipline to allocate uplink channel-resources, taking into account the characteristics of channel fading and intercell interference. In specific, the resource allocated to each traffic flow is proportional to an assigned weighting factor. For real-time traffic, the assigned weighting factor is a constant in order to guarantee the traffic statistical delay bound requirement; for non-real-time traffic, the assigned weighting factor can be adjusted dynamically according to fading, channel states and the traffic statistical fairness bound requirement. Compared with the conventional static-weight scheme, the proposed dynamic-weight scheme achieves capacity gain. A flexible trade-off between the GPS fairness and efficient resource utilization can also be achieved. Analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme enhances radio resource utilization and guarantees statistical QoS under different fairness bound requirements.     

Novel multimedia traffic modeling based CAC scheme for CDMA communication systems

As the radio spectrum is a very scarce resource, the Call Admission Control （CAC） is one of the most important parts in radio resource management. The Code Division Multiple Access （CDMA） based next generation wireless communications systems will support the transmission of multimedia traffic, such as voice, video and data, thus the CAC, which can support the multimedia traffic and guarantee the Quality of Service （QoS） of different traffic, has gained broad attention. In this paper, a novel multimedia traffic modeling method and a corresponding dynamic QoS based CAC are proposed. The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed CAC scheme can guarantee the QoS to different traffic demand, and improve the system performance significantly.     

Efficient Radio Resource Management in Integrated WLAN/CDMA Mobile Networks

The complementary characteristics of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wideband code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular networks make it attractive to integrate these two technologies. How to utilize the overall radio resources optimally in this heterogeneous integrated environment is a challenging issue. This paper proposes an optimal joint session admission control scheme for multimedia traffic that maximizes overall network revenue with quality of service (QoS) constraints over both WLANs and CDMA cellular networks. WLANs operate under IEEE 802.11e medium access control (MAC) protocol, which supports QoS for multimedia traffic. A cross-layer optimization approach is used in CDMA networks taking into account both physical layer linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) receivers and network layer QoS requirements. Numerical examples illustrate that the network revenue earned in the proposed joint admission control scheme is significantly more than that when the individual networks are optimized independently.