Radio resource management for downlink multimedia services in TDMA/CDMA interference-limited cellular networks

This paper addresses the radio resource management (RRM) structure and efficient dynamic capacity allocation techniques for hybrid TDMA/ CDMA mobile cellular networks to support downlink multimedia services with different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements in an interference-limited environment. Various burst-driven timeslot-code assignment algorithms suitable for distributed processing are proposed to achieve high system capacity in terms of b/s/Hz/cell while maintaining a required percentage of satisfied users. Simulation results for various traffic scenarios are used for performance evaluation and comparison. The impacts of bursty WWW traffic on speech performance are also examined. It is shown that interference information can be used in timeslot-code assignment to significantly improve the system performance. Based on the received interference information, the minimum instantaneous power (MIP) algorithm aims to assign timeslot-codes that minimize the required transmitted power to maintain a target SINR. The MIP can provide an increase of 23% in system capacity. By considering to reduce both potentially received and generated interference in timeslot-code assignment, the Minimum Sum of Path-loss Ratios (MS-PLR) algorithm can further offer an additional capacity increase of 24%.     

Radio resource management in multiple-chip-rate DS/CDMA systemssupporting multiclass services

This paper is concerned with radio resource management in multiple-chip-rate (MCR) DS/CDMA systems accommodating multiclass services with different information rates and quality requirements. Considering both power spectral density (PSD) over a radio frequency (RF) link and the effect of RF input filtering on the receiver in MCR-DS/CDMA systems, criteria for call admission are presented and the system performance is derived. The system performance in MCR-DS/CDMA systems is strongly affected by radio resource management. A minimum total-power-increment-based resource management scheme for an efficient resource management is proposed. The performance of this scheme is compared with that of a random-based resource management scheme in terms of the new call blocking probability, handoff call dropping probability, and normalized throughput. In addition, in order to reduce the handoff call dropping rate, reallocating subsystems assigned for communicating calls is proposed. The minimum total-power-increment-based resource management scheme yields better performance than the random-based resource management scheme for multiclass services     

A neural fuzzy resource manager for hierarchical cellular systems supporting multimedia services

Using intelligent techniques to perform radio resource management is an effective method. The paper proposes neural fuzzy control for radio resource management in hierarchical cellular systems supporting multimedia services. A neural fuzzy resource manager (NFRM) is designed, which mainly contains a neural fuzzy channel allocation processor (NFCAP). The NFCAP has a two-layer architecture: a fuzzy cell selector (FCS) in the first layer and a neural fuzzy call-admission and rate controller (NFCRC) in the second layer. The FCS chooses not only the handoff failure probabilities and the resource availabilities in both microcell and macrocell, but also the user mobility, as input linguistic variables. The NFCRC takes the handoff failure probability and the resource availability of the selected cell as input variables to perform call admission control and rate control for the call. Simulation results show that the NFRM can always guarantee the quality of service (QoS) requirement for handoff failure probability for all traffic loads. Also, the NFRM improves the system utilization by 31.1% while increasing the handoff rate by 2% over the overflow channel allocation (OCA) scheme; it enhances the system utilization by 6.3% and 1.4%, and still reduces the handoff rate by 14.9% and 6.8%, as compared to the combined channel allocation (CCA) and fuzzy channel allocation control (FCAC) schemes, respectively, under a predefined QoS constraint.     

Radio resource management of heterogeneous services in mobile WiMAX systems [Radio Resource Management and Protocol Engineering for IEEE 802.16]

IEEE 802.16e, known as mobile WiMAX, has gained much attention recently for its capability to support high transmission rates in cellular environments and QoS for different applications. Beyond what the standard can define, in order to effectively support video streaming, VoIP, and data services, proprietary radio resource management, including multiconnection assignment, scheduling controls, and call admission controls, are essential. In this study we evaluate the downlink performance of a mobile WiMAX cellular system with different radio resource management, especially the scheduler for QoS control and the implementation of multiconnection for streaming applications     

Radio resource index for WCDMA cellular systems

In this letter, a radio resource index (RRI) is derived to estimate the radio resources of a connection in WCDMA cellular systems. An analytical model is presented and large deviation techniques are used. The RRI can transform traffic parameters and multiple quality-of-service (QoS) requirements into a measure of radio resources using a unified metric.     

Call admission control for CDMA mobile communications systems supporting multimedia services

The call admission control (CAC) belongs to the category of resource management. Since the radio spectrum is very scarce resource, CAC is one of the most important engineering issues for mobile communications. In this paper, we propose a CAC scheme for direct sequence code-division multiple-access cellular systems supporting mobile multimedia communications services. There are multiple call classes in multimedia services and the required signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) varies with call classes. Call admission decision in the proposed scheme is based on SIR measurement. We take account of the traffic asymmetry between uplink and downlink, which is the most important characteristic of multimedia traffic. In addition, the proposed scheme guarantees the priority of handoff call requests over new call requests. We evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme using Markov analysis. The performance measures which we focus on are the system throughput and the blocking probabilities of handoff calls and new calls. The outage probability of a call in progress is also calculated, which is the probability that the measured bit energy-to-noise density ratio of the call is smaller than the required value for maintaining adequate transmission quality. We present some numerical examples with practically meaningful parameter values and, as a result, show that the proposed CAC scheme can operate well in the mobile multimedia systems such as the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) systems.     

A virtualized resource management scheme for heterogeneous cellular networks

Because of random deployment patterns of femtocells, interference scenarios in a heterogeneous cellular network can be very complicated because of its changing network topology. Especially when each eNodeB occupies a fixed bandwidth, interference management becomes much more difficult. The benefit of dynamic management for local resource optimation is limited. Recently, resource virtualization has been proposed as a dynamic resource management scheme to optimize network performance. In fact, resource virtualization is viewed as a more flexible model, in which mobile network service providers can control physical resources in a global scope. This paper presents a joint resource virtualization and allocation scheme for its applications in heterogeneous macro‐femto‐cellular networks. The proposed scheme involves two major processes. First, it virtualizes physical resources as logical resources. Second, it carries out logical resource allocation optimization globally and aggregates logical and physical resources for resource allocation. The proposed scheme takes into account spectrum reuse and frequency domain interference jointly in order to achieve a high spectral efficiency and provide rate‐on‐demand services to all users. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Radio resource metric estimation for a TDD‐CDMA system supporting wireless internet traffic

In this paper, the effect of wireless internet traffic on the functionality of a radio resource metric estimation (RME) applicable to a TDD‐CDMA system which incorporates a multirate transmission scheme (such as multicode and multislot) with simple call admission control algorithm is investigated. A solution for efficient inter‐working between the physical layer and the higher layers is proposed, a resource metric mapping function (RMMF) that can deliver information about the state of the current channel load condition by the monitoring of signal‐to‐interference ratio (SIR) bursts and also the availability of a code pool by estimating the mean and the standard deviation of SIR bursts. This function is defined and demonstrated by means of an average raw BER mapping diagram as a function of the mean and the standard deviation of SIR bursts according to the multirate transmission method. By using this kind of mapping function combined with throughput estimation, the radio resource allocation algorithm can successfully reflect the current interference and mobile radio channel characteristics. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Joint radio resource management for heterogeneous wireless systems

Heterogeneous wireless systems are characterized by the physical coexistence of a variety of radio access technologies with different, but also complementary, technical characteristics and performance. A key aspect of heterogeneous systems is then the implementation of efficient joint radio resource management mechanisms. In this context, this paper presents and evaluates novel joint radio resource management techniques based on the CEA bankruptcy distribution rule. The proposed policies base their distribution decisions on the system conditions and the varying quality of service requirements present in multimedia scenarios. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed policies can efficiently distribute the radio resources with a low computational cost.     

Multiple-length extended carrier-hopping prime codes for optical CDMA systems supporting multirate multimedia services

Extended carrier-hopping prime codes (ECHPCs) with ideal correlation properties (i.e., zero autocorrelation sidelobes and cross-correlation values of at most 1) and significantly expanded cardinality were recently constructed for wavelength-hopping time-spreading optical code division multiple access (O-CDMA). To support multimedia services with different bit-rate requirements, a new family of multiple-length constant-weight ECHPCs with ideal correlation properties is constructed algebraically in this paper. The performance of these new codes in an O-CDMA multimedia system is analyzed. Contrary to conventional single-length codes, our study shows that the performance of these multiple-length codes improves as the code length decreases, thus supporting prioritization in O-CDMA.     

Multiple-length multiple-wavelength optical orthogonal codes for optical CDMA systems supporting multirate multimedia services

Multiple-wavelength optical orthogonal codes (MWOOCs) with autocorrelation sidelobes and cross-correlation values of both at most one were recently proposed for wavelength-time optical code-division multiple-access (O-CDMA) systems. The codes have cardinality as a quadratic function of the number of wavelengths and find applications in high bit-rate O-CDMA systems with broadband supercontinuum lasers, in which the number of available wavelengths is larger than the number of time slots. To support multimedia services with different bit-rate and quality-of-service requirements, a new class of multiple-length constant-weight MWOOCs with autocorrelation sidelobes of zero and cross correlations of at most one is constructed algebraically in this paper. The performance of these new codes in an O-CDMA system with double-media services is analyzed. In contrary to conventional single-length codes, our study shows that the performance of these multiple-length codes improves as the code length decreases. This unique property supports "prioritization" in O-CDMA.     

Optimal resource management in wireless multimedia wideband CDMA systems

This paper proposes a scheme of optimal resource management for reverse-link transmissions in multimedia wideband code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) communications. It is to guarantee quality-of-service (QoS) by resource (transmit power and rate) allocation and to achieve high spectral efficiency by base-station assignment. This approach takes the form of a nonlinear-programming large-scale optimization problem: maximizing an abstraction for the profit of a service provider subject to QoS satisfaction. Solutions for both single-cell and multicell systems are investigated. The single-cell solution has the advantage of low complexity and global convergence in comparison with the previous work. Maximum achievable throughput (capacity) of a single cell is mathematically evaluated and used as the benchmark for performance measure of multicell systems. For multicell systems, due to its max-max structure, solving the optimization problem directly entails a high-computational complexity. Instead, the problem is reformulated to a mixed integer nonlinear-programming (MINLP) problem. Then, binary variables indicating base-station assignments are relaxed to their continuous analogs to make a computer solution feasible. Furthermore, approximations can be made to make the resource-management scheme less computationally complex and allow its partial decentralization. The sensitivity of the proposed scheme to path-gain estimation error is studied. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme and the throughput improvement achieved by combining resource allocation with base station assignment.     

Adaptive subcarrier and bit allocation in OFDMA systems supporting heterogeneous services

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is an efficient multiple access method for the future wireless systems. This paper studies the adaptive subcarrier and bit allocation problem in OFDMA systems to support heterogeneous services. The goal of the considered resource optimization technique is to maximize the total system throughput under the overall transmit power constraint while guaranteeing the QoS requirement of realtime users and supporting proportional fairness among non-realtime users. First, we introduce a Rate Adaptive (RA) resource allocation algorithm for non-realtime users and a Margin Adaptive (MA) algorithm for realtime users. Then, based on the previous algorithms, a novel algorithm is proposed to allocate the resource to both classes of users, which makes an efficient tradeoff between the resource usage of realtime users and non-realtime users. The algorithm is locally optimal solution provided that the MA and RA algorithms are utilized. Also, to reduce the computational complexity, a suboptimal method based on the balancing of the average power per subcarrier is also introduced. Monte Carlo simulation results show that all the proposed algorithms outperform the existing counterparts. The results also show that the suboptimal method for heterogeneous services can efficiently reduce the computational complexity at the cost of very little performance degradation. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60472079, 60572115), and by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No. Z104252), China.     

Multicarrier CDMA for cellular overlay systems

A code-division multiple access (CDMA) cellular overlay system is investigated, employing the idea of multicarrier CDMA, which has previously received significant attention as an alternative to traditional single-carrier CDMA. Overlay is pursued here as a means of long-term transition from narrowband cellular to CDMA cellular. A major result of this paper is the demonstration that the use of multicarrier CDMA in a fading channel is particularly beneficial to the narrowband system, as the CDMA users can reduce their transmitted powers as a result of diversity. Another significant conclusion is that the use of transmitter notching in the CDMA system in order to avoid active narrowband users outperforms a strategy in which a narrowband user is avoided by simply dropping the particular carrier which overlays it. Finally, results on the use of the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver in a fading channel are extended for use in the overlay scenario     

Radio resource management schemes for combined GSM/GPRS mobile systems

Data services like Web browsing, e‐mail and file transfer are becoming more and more popular in cellular systems. In contemporary systems like Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), data transfer has been circuit‐switched, that is, physical resources are allocated to a user for the entire call/session duration. However, this is inefficient in case of bursty traffic, where bursts are separated by long intervals of inactivity. This has been the main reason for the introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), which on the one hand acts as a mobile access network to the Internet, while on the other hand it enables the operator to offer a wide variety of value‐added services [Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) over GPRS, e/m‐banking, e/m‐commerce, push services, etc.] efficiently. However, in contemporary commercial implementations of GPRS the radio resource allocation algorithm does not take into account the Quality of Service (QoS)‐related service characteristics—although such information is exchanged between the terminal and the network—and consequently all service requests are treated the same way (‘best effort’). In this paper, we propose and evaluate via a simulation platform various Radio Resource Management (RRM) schemes capable of differentiating the handling of ‘service requests’ (in uplink and downlink), taking into account the GPRS‐related QoS parameters (precedence, reliability, delay, mean and peak throughput). The evaluation is performed for a range of voice (circuit‐switched) traffic loads, number of Transmit Receive eXchange (TRXs), offered data (packet‐switched) services characteristics, number of dedicated Packet Data Channels (PDCHs), and so on, taking into account the respective QoS requirements for both service types (circuit‐ and packet‐switched). Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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.     

CDMA transmitter filtering for cellular overlay systems

In this paper, the overlay of a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) cellular system in a frequency band which is already providing service to a narrow-band cellular system is investigated. The motivation for this study is to demonstrate the potential of CDMA overlay as an efficient method for making a long-term transition from narrow-band cellular to CDMA cellular. For the single cell case, it was shown by Rainbolt and Miller (see IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol.16, p.1756-64, 1998) that interference caused to the narrow-band system by even a lightly-loaded CDMA system is significant, a problem which can be greatly alleviated through the use of notch filtering in the CDMA transmitters to avoid active narrow-band users. Similar conclusions will be reached in this paper for the cellular case. The effects of notching on CDMA performance will be looked at in detail, and it will be shown that the notching is less of a problem than is the narrow-band interference inherent in overlay systems     

Future broadband radio access systems for integrated services withflexible resource management

The current challenge in radio networks is to provide integrated broadband services to everybody. The realization of this goal is dependent on both the development of products for the mass market and the improvement of the systems that support these products. New cellular mobile, fixed terrestrial, and satellite systems are being developed to provide broadband integrated services. The users of these new systems will not need, or even want, to know which particular systems are used to access the requested services. The users may negotiate terms of delivery, such as data rate and quality of service, but the actual system of delivery should be transparent. In order to both achieve transparent service delivery and ensure efficient use of the radio frequency spectrum, a flexible and scaleable resource management system is needed. This article highlights the development trends that will form the basis of future network systems and presents some suggestions for the management and control of these systems     

An efficient radio resource management strategy for adaptive OFDM cellular systems

This paper presents an efficient Radio Resource Management （RRM） strategy for adaptive Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing （OFDM） cellular systems. In the proposed strategy, only those users who have the same distance from their base stations can reuse a same subcarrier. This can guarantee the received Carrier-to-Interference ratio （C/I） of each subcarrier to be acceptable as required by system planning. Then by employing different modulation scheme on each subcarrier according to its received C/I, system spectral efficiency can be gracefully increased. Analytical and simulation results show that the spectral efficiency is improved by 40% without sacrificing the Bit Error Rate （BER） performance and call blocking probability and system capacity of the proposed strategy is better than conventional systems.     

Modeling resource management in cellular systems using Petri nets

Modeling and analysis tools are essential for the design and evaluation of complex systems. This is particularly true for cellular systems, where, for instance, a variety of handoff, channel allocation, and data-transmission algorithms have been proposed. The capabilities of Petri nets (PNs) are used as a novel approach in the analysis of handoff, dynamic channel allocation (DCA), and cellular digital packet data resource management problems. The generalized stochastic PN (GSPN) models are obtained and analyzed as continuous-time Markov chains (MCs) derived from the reachability graphs. Solution of the MC results in performance indicators, which show the impacts of different algorithms on the system behavior