Optimal radio access technology selection on heterogeneous networks

نویسندگان

  • Diego Pacheco-Paramo
  • Vicent Pla
  • Vicente Casares Giner
  • Jorge Martínez-Bauset
چکیده

The joint management of radio resources in heterogeneous networks is considered to improve their capacity. We propose joint schemes for admission control and access technology selection with vertical handoffs. Optimal policies are found for wireless networks that support two access techniques and cover the same geographical area. In addition, the system under study also supports heterogeneous traffic of two types: streaming and elastic. We explore the optimization of different functions expressed in terms of blocking probabilities and throughput. An exhaustive numerical analysis allows us to characterize the optimal admission policies according to the arrival type and system state. Based on this characterization, heuristic policies are designed and their performance is compared to the one obtained by previously proposed schemes. This analysis is also done when constraints, expressed in terms of blocking probability bounds, are added. An extension of the previous system that includes vertical handoffs, in order to evaluate their impact on the system performance, is also studied. For the four types of vertical handoffs considered, we determine and characterize the optimal policies according to the arrival type, system state and vertical handoff action. Since it is not computationally feasible to calculate the optimal policies online, new heuristic policies with vertical handoffs are design and evaluated. It is found that the heuristic policies scale with the system size without requiring any adjustment, their performance is very close to the one obtained by the optimal policies and they are simple to implement, and, therefore, can be used online. In addition, we find that the heuristic policies are insensitive to the service time of the voice sessions and the elastic flow sizes beyond the mean. Finally, in order to take into into account the cost of performing vertical handoffs, a new optimization problem is formulated that relates the costs of voice and data blocking with the costs of vertical handoffs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical Communication

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012