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Computer Communications
Volume 27, Issue 11, 1 July 2004, Pages 1115-1126
Applications and Services in Wireless Networks
 
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Admission control in UMTS in the presence of shared channels

S. -E. ElayoubiCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, T. ChahedE-mail The Corresponding Author and G. HébuterneE-mail The Corresponding Author

GET/Institut National des Telecommunications, 9 rue C. Fourier, Evry, Cedex 91011, France

Available online 20 February 2004.

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Abstract

In this article, we focus on Call Admission Control (CAC) in the presence of both real-time and elastic flows in a multicell UMTS environment where elastic flows share a common, shared channel. We first study the capacity of a multicell UMTS system. We determine an upper bound on the other-cell interference and obtain novel expressions for the SIR and powers for both the uplink and the downlink. The former is an asynchronous CDMA system, often using one of three types of receivers: matched filter, minimum mean-square error and decorrelator. In the latter, the SIR depends on the distance between the user and the base station. Based on these expressions, we develop a novel CAC algorithm that takes into account the effects of mobility, coverage as well as the wired capacity in the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), for the uplink, and the maximal transmission power of the base station, for the downlink. Our algorithm outperforms classical ones as it achieves lower dropping rates. We eventually use this framework to manage priorities between real-time calls, transmitted over dedicated channels, and elastic calls, transmitted over common or shared ones. Real-time calls are given an admission priority if the channel is constrained, while decreasing the ongoing elastic calls share.

Author Keywords: Universal mobile telecommunication system; Call admission control; Multiuser receivers; Elastic traffic

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Modeling other-cell interference
2.1. Case of the uplink
2.1.1. Gaussian approximation
2.1.2. Log-normal approximation
2.2. Case of the downlink
3. SIR and capacity in multicell UMTS
3.1. SIR in the uplink
3.1.1. The matched filter receiver
3.1.2. The MMSE receiver
3.1.3. The decorrelator
3.1.4. Powers at the base station
3.2. SIR in the downlink
4. Connection admission control
4.1. Case of the uplink
4.1.1. Effect of mobility and coverage
4.1.2. Effect of the UTRAN's wired capacity
4.2. Case of the downlink
4.3. CAC in the presence of elastic flows
5. Numerical applications
5.1. Convergence of the SIR
5.2. Performance of our CAC algorithm
5.3. Performance of our CAC in the presence of elastic traffic
6. Conclusion
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Applications and Services in Wireless Networks
 
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