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Computer Networks
Volume 51, Issue 10, 11 July 2007, Pages 2554-2564
 
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On utility-fair bandwidth adaptation for multi-class traffic QoS provisioning in wireless networks

Ning Lua, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and John Bighamb

aMPI-QMUL Information Systems Research Centre, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Rua de Luı´s Gonzaga Gomes, Macao, SAR, China bDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK

Received 5 December 2005; 
revised 9 August 2006; 
accepted 21 November 2006. 
Responsible Editor: N. Bartolini. 
Available online 13 December 2006.

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Abstract

The ability to adjust the allocated bandwidth of ongoing calls to cope with wireless network resource fluctuations is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we describe a utility-based bandwidth adaptation scheme for multi-class traffic quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning in wireless networks. With the proposed scheme, each call is assigned a utility function according to its adaptive characteristics. Depending on the network load the allocated bandwidth of ongoing calls are upgraded or degraded dynamically such that each call receives fair utility. The quantization of utility function by dividing the utility range into a fixed number of equal intervals is a key feature of our proposed utility-fair algorithm. Appropriate call admission control and bandwidth reservation policies are also integrated into the proposed scheme to provide QoS guarantees to the new and handoff calls. Extensive simulation experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme compared with two other existing ones. Results show that our bandwidth adaptation scheme is effective in achieving utility fairness while keeping the call blocking and handoff dropping probabilities substantially low.

Keywords: Bandwidth adaptation; Multi-class traffic; QoS; Utility function; Utility fair

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Utility-based traffic modeling
2.1. The concept of utility function
2.2. Traffic classes and their utility functions
3. Bandwidth adaptation formulation
3.1. Bandwidth upgrades
3.2. Bandwidth degrades
4. Our proposed bandwidth adaptation algorithm
5. New call admission and handoff call management
5.1. New call admission
5.2. Handoff call management
6. Simulation experiments
6.1. Simulation model
6.2. Numerical results
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix A. Appendix
A.1. Adaptive real-time multimedia traffic
A.2. Non-real-time data traffic
References
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