Tiered bandwidth reservation scheme for multimedia wireless networks

作者：Lai, Wei Kuang^*; Tsai, Hsu-Sheng; Sun, Yu-Hang

来源：Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2009, 9(7): 1005-1016.

DOI：10.1002/wcm.650

• call admission control
• bandwidth reservation
• bandwidth borrowing
• sectored cellular networks
• quality of service

It is important to provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees if we want to support multimedia applications over wireless networks. In this paper, considering the features of tiering in sectored cellular networks, we propose a novel scheme for bandwidth reservation to approach QoS provisioning. By predicting the movement of each connection, the reserving of bandwidth is only required in needful neighboring cells instead of in all neighboring cells. In addition, an admission control mechanism incorporated with bandwidth borrowing assists in distributing scarce wireless bandwidth in more adaptive way. Through mathematical analysis, we proof the advantages of tier-based approach and the bound for the selection of tiered boundary. The simulation results also verify that our scheme can achieve superior performance than traditional schemes regarding no bandwidth reserving, fixed bandwidth reserving, and bandwidth borrowing in sectored cellular networks when performance metrics are measured in terms of the connection dropping probability (CDP), connection blocking probability (CBP), and bandwidth utilization (BU).

• 出版日期2009-7
• 单位中山大学