An FDD wideband CDMA MAC protocol with minimum-power allocation and GPS-scheduling for wireless wide area multimedia networks

A frequency division duplex (FDD) wideband code division multiple access (CDMA) medium access control (MAC) protocol is developed for wireless wide area multimedia networks. In order to reach the maximum system capacity and guarantee the heterogeneous bit error rates (BERs) of multimedia traffic, a minimum-power allocation algorithm is first derived, where both multicode (MC) and orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) transmissions are assumed. Based on the minimum-power allocation algorithm, a multimedia wideband CDMA generalized processor sharing (GPS) scheduling scheme is proposed. It provides fair queueing to multimedia traffic with different QoS constraints. It also takes into account the limited number of code channels for each user and the variable system capacity due to interference experienced by users in a CDMA network. To control the admission of real-time connections, a connection admission control (CAC) scheme is proposed, in which the effective bandwidth admission region is derived based on the minimum-power allocation algorithm. With the proposed resource management algorithms, the MAC protocol significantly increases system throughput, guarantees BER, and improves QoS metrics of multimedia traffic.     

Design of spread spectrum multicode CDMA transport architecture formultimedia services

We investigate a new application of the well-known spread spectrum code division multiple access (SS-CDMA) techniques to multimedia services related to the development of the next-generation wireless mobile networks interconnecting with a wireline ATM-based broadband network. Such services allow users to share novel multimedia applications without any geographical restrictions. However, since the mobile radio channel has a fixed limited bandwidth, the traditional SS-CDMA system may not be sufficient to accommodate the variable bit rate (VBR) multimedia services requested by multiple mobile users simultaneously. Moreover, the traffic load at the base station can change dynamically due to the time-varying throughput requirement of these requested multimedia services. To tackle this difficulty, a multicode CDMA (MC-CDMA) technique is proposed to provide multirate multimedia services by varying the number of spreading codes assigned to each user in order to meet its throughput requirement. In MC-CDMA, a spreading code can be used to transmit information at a basic bit rate. Users (video or data) who need higher transmission rates can use multiple codes in parallel. Meanwhile, the maximum available number of codes in the MC-CDMA system is still limited. Hence, a cost-effective dynamic code allocation scheme has then been proposed to dynamically assign an appropriate number of codes to each user for achieving the maximum resource utilization for multiuser multimedia services via the mobile radio channel. Finally, a number of real multimedia titles generated from the well-known MacroMind Director are conducted to evaluate performance     

New concepts and technologies for achieving highly reliable andhigh-capacity multimedia wireless communications systems

The rapid growth of multimedia wireless communications services forces the development of advanced digital wireless systems with high reliability and high speed as well as flexibility for varying traffic conditions. To achieve such advanced wireless systems. New system design concepts different from the conventional ones aiming at increasing system capacity for voice transmission would be required. Since multimedia wireless communications require high quality, high speed, and high flexibility as well as temporary and spatial control of traffic under severe fading environments, the so-called conventional system design concept will be insufficient. New system design concepts and techniques for achieving highly reliable and high-capacity multimedia wireless communications are discussed using both time division multiple access (TDMA) and code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. The demands for high-speed and high-reliability mobile, personal, and multimedia wireless communications services strongly require matching with the trunk network constructed by a broadband optical fiber system or wired system     

An advanced channel access scheme for integrated multimediaservices with various bit rates in CDMA networks

For efficient code sharing among users, a wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol for CDMA networks is proposed, which supports connection-oriented, as well as connectionless, services and provides the various bit rates needed for the integrated multimedia services. The proposed MAC protocol allows mobile terminals to use multiple slots and spreading codes based on contention and reservation. Optimum frequency resources are allocated to the connection-oriented and connectionless services with various bit rates. Waiting and response times in the first contention are reduced, and the overall mean delay time is typically minimized in the case of connectionless bulky traffic     

Multirate optical fast frequency hopping CDMA system using powercontrol

This paper addresses the problem of real-time multimedia transmission in fiber-optic networks using code division multiple access (CDMA). We present a multirate optical fast frequency hopping CDMA (OFFH-CDMA) system architecture using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). In addition, we argue that, in multimedia applications, different services have different quality of service (QoS) requirements; hence, the user only needs to use the minimum required power to transmit the signal, such that the required signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) is met. We show that a variable bit rate optical communication system with variable QoS can be implemented by way of power control with great efficiency. Present-day multirate optical CDMA systems concentrate on finding the code structure that supports a variable rate system, neglecting the importance of the transmission power of active users on the multiple access interference (MAI) and, therefore, on the system capacity. We assign different power levels to each rate through a power control algorithm using variable optical attenuators, which minimizes the interference and, at the same time, provides variable QoS constraints for different traffic types. Although we are using a code family that preserves good correlation properties between codes of different lengths, simulations show a great improvement in the system capacity when power control is used     

基于TDD-CDMA的集成可变速率多媒体业务传输的MAC协议

文章给出了一种应用于移动多媒体通信的无线媒体接入控制(MAC)协议.该MAC协议采用混合TDMA/CDMA结构,以提高资源利用率;采用多码并行传榆提供可变速率,以支持集成多媒体业务.系统仿真表明,该协议具有较高的码利用率和良好的灵活性,适用于可变速率多媒体业务集成传输.     

A wireless multimedia CDMA system based on transmission powercontrol

This paper proposes a wireless multimedia code division multiple access (CDMA) system based on transmission power control. When we transmit multimedia information (i.e., speech, image, and data), differences in information rate, traffic performance, and required quality should be taken into account. The wireless CDMA system can achieve a flexible balance if transmission power distribution is controlled by using channel measurement information, i.e., traffic. In this paper, the optimal control of transmission power is derived by linear programming and nonlinear programming. Numerical results using a LAN demonstrate that the proposed method can satisfy the required quality     

ARC: the analytical rate control scheme for real-time traffic in wireless networks

Next-generation wireless Internet (NGWI) is expected to provide a wide range of services including real-time multimedia to mobile users. However, the real-time multimedia traffic transport requires rate control deployment to protect shared Internet from unfairness and further congestion collapse. The transmission rate control method must also achieve high throughput and satisfy multimedia requirements such as delay or jitter bound. However, the existing solutions are mostly for the wired Internet, and hence, they do not address the challenges in the wireless environments which are characterized by high bit error rates. In this paper, a new analytical rate control (ARC) protocol for real-time multimedia traffic over wireless networks is presented. It is intended to achieve high throughput and multimedia support for real-time traffic flows while preserving fairness to the TCP sources sharing the same wired link resources. Based on the end-to-end path model, the desired behavior of a TCP source over lossy links is captured via renewal theory. The resulting asymptotic throughput equation is designated as the driving equation for the proposed rate control method. Performance evaluation via simulation experiments reveals that ARC achieves high throughput and meets multimedia traffic expectations without violating good citizenship rules for the shared Internet.     

Capacity plane of CDMA system for multimedia traffic

In a wireless CDMA system for multimedia services, the maximum number of concurrent users satisfying the QoS (Quality of Service) requirements is evaluated in both single-cell and multi-cell environments. A simple upper-bounded hyperplane concept is also formulated to visualise the capacity of a multimedia CDMA system. With this capacity plane, the tradeoffs between the level of system resources needed for a certain user and that needed for others are illustrated, analytically, within the concept of resource management     

Capacity unbalance between uplink and downlink in spectrallyoverlaid narrow-band and wide-band CDMA mobile systems

In this paper, we discuss capacity unbalance between uplink (mobile-to-base) and downlink (base-to-mobile) in future code division multiple access (CDMA) radio networks where both narrow-band and wide-band CDMA systems are coexisted. Since the two links are not operated in an identical condition, their capacities are unequal and either of the links determines the whole system capacity. The purpose of this paper is to examine which link limits the system capacity and what are the limiting factors. To facilitate the examination, “transmission capacity” and “connection capacity” are defined, and simplified formulas are presented to compute those capacities, respectively for uplink and downlink. Signal quality required for each link, effectiveness of power control, spatial distribution of mobile users and other-cell as well as same-cell user interference are usually determining the limiting link. Besides, the traffic unbalance between the links imposed by specific service applications and the network evolution scenarios are also shown to be very influencing factors     

Service based CAC with QoS guarantee in mobile wireless cellular networks

The increasing variety and complexity of traffic in today's mobile wireless networks means that there are more restrictions placed on a network in order to guarantee the individual requirements of the different traffic types and users. Call admission control (CAC) plays a vital role in achieving this. In this paper, we propose a CAC scheme for multiple service systems where the predicted call usage of each service is used to make the admission decision. Our scheme enables real‐time traffic to be transmitted using shared bandwidth without quality of service (QoS) requirements being exceeded. This ensures that the utilization of the available wireless bandwidth is maximized. Information about the channel usage of each service is used to estimate the capacity of the cell in terms of the number of users that can achieve a certain bit error rate (BER). Priorities assigned to each service are used to allocate the network capacity. An expression for the handoff dropping probability is derived, and the maximum acceptance rate for each service that results in the estimated dropping probability not exceeding its QoS requirements is calculated. Each call is then accepted with equal probability throughout the duration of a control period. Achieved QoS during the previous control period is used to update the new call acceptance rates thus ensuring the dropping probability remains below the specified threshold. Simulations conducted in a wideband CDMA environment with conversational, streaming, interactive and background sources show that the proposed CAC can successfully meet the hard restraint on the dropping probability and guarantee the required BER for multiple services. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Channel assignment with QoS guarantees for a multiclass multicode CDMA system

In a wireless system that supports multimedia services, each traffic requires different quality of service (QoS) at both communication on radio links and connection admission. We initially derive the uplink capacity satisfying the QoS constraint on radio links in a multiclass multicode code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system. Based on the derived capacity, the number of channel elements, which is one of the system resources, is determined. Then, we define the QoS parameters associated with connection processes. To guarantee the defined QoS at the connection level, under given channel elements, we propose a channel-assignment scheme with dynamic priority adjustment (DPA). The proposed scheme gives multipriority to different traffic classes. Real-time classes can preempt non-real-time classes with restricted preemptive priority. Such restriction is regulated by preemption-free code channels and a buffer threshold for non-real-time classes. Among real-time classes, different priorities are assigned to each traffic class by code reservation parameters. These multipriority parameters are dynamically adjusted in order to guarantee different QoS requirements. We analyze the DPA scheme by the matrix-geometric method, and evaluate the performance of each traffic class. The results show that the proposed scheme flexibly guarantees QoS depending on traffic loading condition and achieves high channel utilization.     

Improvements of spreading codes utilisation efficiency forintegrated multimedia services in CDMA network

A wireless MAC protocol for the CDMA network is proposed which provides the various bit rates required to support the integrated multimedia services. The proposed method improves the spreading codes utilisation efficiency by sharing limited spreading codes among all mobile terminals     

基于网络的视频通信系统的设计

随着移动通信和多媒体通信的飞速发展,构建于无线网络之上的多媒体服务已经被越来越多的用户所接受。2．5代移动通信CDMA的典型带宽为30～50kb／s,可以传输低速的视频,但是对多媒体应用来说,其质量还是未能达到要求。在现有技术条件下,如何在CDMA无线信道中保证视频流的质量以及如何扩大带宽提高视频质量,是值得研究的问题。文中提出了一种在多个CDMA通道中进行视频传输的框架,利用多个CDMA无线信道绑定的方法,提高了视频的帧率和分辨率。     

An uplink CDMA system architecture with diverse QoS guarantees forheterogeneous traffic

The uplink access control problems for cellular code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems that service heterogeneous traffic with various types of quality-of-service (QoS) and use multicode CDMA to support variable bit rates are addressed. Considering its distinct QoS requirements, class-I real-time traffic (e.g., voice and video) is differentiated from class-II non-real-time traffic (e.g., data). Connection-oriented transmission is achieved by assigning mobile-oriented code channels for class-I traffic, where each corresponding mobile needs to pass an admission test. Class-II traffic is transmitted in a best-effort manner through a transmission-rate request access scheme which utilizes the bandwidth left unused by class-I traffic. Whenever a mobile has class-II messages to transmit, the mobile requests code channels via a base station-oriented transmission-request code channel, then, according to the base station scheduling, the transmission is scheduled and permitted. Addressed are the admission test for class-I connections, transmission power allocation, and how to maximize the aggregate throughput for class-II traffic. The admission region of voice and video connections and the optimum target signal-to-interference ratio of class-II traffic are derived numerically. The performance of class-II traffic transmissions in terms of average delay is also evaluated and discussed     

QoS-oriented packet scheduling for wireless multimedia CDMA communications

In the third-generation (and beyond) wireless communication systems, there will be a mixture of different traffic classes, each having its own transmission rate characteristics and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, a QoS-oriented medium access control (MAC) protocol with fair packet loss sharing (FPLS) scheduling is proposed for wireless code-division multiple access (CDMA) communications. The QoS parameters under consideration are the transmission bit error rate (BER), packet loss, and delay requirements. The MAC protocol exploits both time-division and code-division statistical multiplexing. The BER requirements are guaranteed by properly arranging simultaneous packet transmissions and controlling there transmit power levels, whereas the packet loss and delay requirements are guaranteed by proper packet scheduling. The basic idea of FPLS is to schedule the transmission of multimedia packets in such a way that all the users have a fair share of packet loss according to their QoS requirements, which maximizes the number of the served users under the QoS constraints. Simulation results demonstrate effectiveness of the FPLS scheduler, in comparison with other previously proposed scheduling algorithms.     

Adaptive self-reconfigurable interference suppression schemes forCDMA

In this paper we present a new approach to interference suppression in code-division multiple-access (CDMA) wireless networks. Depending on the interfering signal, these schemes adaptively change not only their parameters but their structures as well. For the relevant types of the interfering signal, suppression is also possible for the wideband interference occupying the same frequency band as the CDMA signal. Probability of error in these schemes is for several orders of magnitude better than in the existing solutions described in the open literature so far. The main applications are the CDMA overlay type wireless network collocated in the same frequency band with a high bit rate microwave communication system, and the multimedia CDMA network where high bit rate signal due to lower processing gain must use a higher level in order to provide the required quality of transmission     

QoS based fair resource allocation in multi-cell TD/CDMA communication systems

Abstract-In a wireless multimedia code division multiple access (CDMA) system, the resources in terms of transmission rate and power should be efficiently distributed to each user to guarantee its quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. In, this paper, a resource allocation algorithm which combines packet scheduling and power assignment is proposed to achieve efficient resource utilization under QoS constraints. The packet scheduling is based on the fair packet loss sharing (FPLS) principle, and the power assignment is determined by the received power limited (RPL) scheme. The basic idea of FPLS is to schedule the transmission of multimedia packets in such a way that, all the users have a fair share of packet loss according to their QoS requirements, which maximizes the number of the served users with QoS satisfaction. The RPL scheme minimizes the received power for each packet. Given the propagation path loss, it in turn minimizes the transmitted power as well. The intercell interference from the scheduled packets is also limited in order to increase the system capacity.     

Energy efficiency in wireless cellular networks based on dynamic power allocation

Energy efficiency is increasingly vital for wireless cellular systems due to the limited battery resources of mobile clients. Among previous work, many studies suggest different methods to reduce the transmission power in case of a fixed condition. However, according to the mobility of users and continuous variation of cellular network environment, the traffic load of base station (BS) and the channel state information (CSI) are varying. In this paper, we proposed a dynamic power allocation schedule to assign transmit power to mobile users in the downlink, resulting in optimal energy saving. The novel power allocation scheme was based on the coordination of neighbouring cells. The results showed that the scheme dramatically reduce the average bit error rate (BER) and total tranmitted power of the system, with the improvement of network capacity.     

三值CDMA移动通信系统容量分析

从编码理论和话务理论出发 ,分析了三值CDMA移动通信系统的系统容量。证明在信息传输速率一致的条件下 ,三值系统的无线容量约为二值系统的log2 3(约 1 6 )倍 ;在码元传输速率一致的条件下 ,三值系统的服务等级更高。可见 ,三值CDMA系统为解决现有移动通信系统容量不足的问题开辟了新的途径。