Investigating the Performance of Scheduling Schemes in Hsdpa System

This paper focuses on evaluating the performance of scheduling schemes in HSDPA system. The investigation is performed with the aid of system level simulator developed for this purpose. The investigation focuses on four scheduling schemes namely Maximum C/I, Proportional Fair, Fair Throughput and Round Robin. The investigation is performed in terms of service throughput, and fairness at network level. Moreover, the investigation is also performed over the user level in terms of user average throughput, retransmissions percentage and SPDU transfer delay.