Delay Analysis of Packet Scheduling with Multi-Users Diversity in Wireless CDMA Systems

There have been a number of studies that investigate efficient packet scheduling schemes to support quality of service of multiple real-time data users and to increase capacity of non-real-time users sharing a wireless channel. We consider the problem of scheduling transmissions of multiple data users sharing the same wireless channel so as to satisfy delay or throughput and present a general packet scheduling, called MBCS (Multi-users Best Channel Scheduling) which takes advantage of the multi-user diversity of a mobile wireless system. In this paper, a queuing model that represents radio resource management for supporting packet data services is developed for the purpose of evaluating the performance of wireless CDMA systems. Numerical results show that delay performance of the proposed scheduler is higher than that of the Single-user Best Channel Scheduler (SBCS) depending on the time-varying channel status.Sungkyung Kim is a Ph. D. student in the collage of information & Communications at University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. She received her B.S. and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University in 1999 and in 2001, respectively. From March 2001 to August 2004, she worked at the Electronics Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, as a member of research engineer. Her research interests include MAC protocol, radio resource control, packet scheduling, and system performance evaluation at system level in wireless access networks.Chung Gu Kang received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1987 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. While working on his Ph.D. dissertation from June 1991 to May 1992, he also was with the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, as a part-time member of technical staff (MTS). After graduation in 1993, he joined Rockwell International in Anaheim, California, where he has been working on the signaling system no. 7 and other telecommunication systems development. Since March 1994, he has been with College of Information & Communications at the Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a full professor. His research interests include next generation mobile radio communication system and broadband wireless networks, with special emphasis on physical layer/medium access control layer design and performance analysis. During the academic year of 2000, he has been a visiting scholar at Center for Wireless Communication and also a visiting professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He is a member of IEEE COMSOC, IT, and VT, and a member of KICS and KITE.