692 research outputs found
Maximizing Energy Efficiency in Multiple Access Channels by Exploiting Packet Dropping and Transmitter Buffering
Quality of service (QoS) for a network is characterized in terms of various
parameters specifying packet delay and loss tolerance requirements for the
application. The unpredictable nature of the wireless channel demands for
application of certain mechanisms to meet the QoS requirements. Traditionally,
medium access control (MAC) and network layers perform these tasks. However,
these mechanisms do not take (fading) channel conditions into account. In this
paper, we investigate the problem using cross layer techniques where
information flow and joint optimization of higher and physical layer is
permitted. We propose a scheduling scheme to optimize the energy consumption of
a multiuser multi-access system such that QoS constraints in terms of packet
loss are fulfilled while the system is able to maximize the advantages emerging
from multiuser diversity. Specifically, this work focuses on modeling and
analyzing the effects of packet buffering capabilities of the transmitter on
the system energy for a packet loss tolerant application. We discuss low
complexity schemes which show comparable performance to the proposed scheme.
The numerical evaluation reveals useful insights about the coupling effects of
different QoS parameters on the system energy consumption and validates our
analytical results.Comment: in IEEE trans. Wireless communications, 201
On Asymptotic Optimality of Dual Scheduling Algorithm In A Generalized Switch
Generalized switch is a model of a queueing system where parallel servers are interdependent and have time-varying service capabilities. This paper considers the dual scheduling algorithm that uses rate control and queue-length based scheduling to allocate resources for a generalized switch. We consider a saturated system in which each user has infinite amount of data to be served. We prove the asymptotic optimality of the dual scheduling algorithm for such a system, which says that the vector of average service rates of the scheduling algorithm maximizes some aggregate concave utility functions. As the fairness objectives can be achieved by appropriately choosing utility functions, the asymptotic optimality establishes the fairness properties of the dual scheduling algorithm.
The dual scheduling algorithm motivates a new architecture for scheduling, in which an additional queue is introduced to interface the user data queue and the time-varying server and to modulate the scheduling process, so as to achieve different performance objectives. Further research would include scheduling with Quality of Service guarantees with the dual scheduler, and its application and implementation in various versions of the generalized switch model
Adaptive Beam-Frequency Allocation Algorithm with Position Uncertainty for Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems
Envisioned for fifth generation (5G) systems, millimeter-wave (mmWave)
communications are under very active research worldwide. Although pencil beams
with accurate beamtracking may boost the throughput of mmWave systems, this
poses great challenges in the design of radio resource allocation for highly
mobile users. In this paper, we propose a joint adaptive beam-frequency
allocation algorithm that takes into account the position uncertainty inherent
to high mobility and/or unstable users as, e.g., Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAV), for whom this is a major problem. Our proposed method provides an
optimized beamwidth selection under quality of service (QoS) requirements for
maximizing system proportional fairness, under user position uncertainty. The
rationale of our scheme is to adapt the beamwidth such that the best trade-off
among system performance (narrower beam) and robustness to uncertainty (wider
beam) is achieved. Simulation results show that the proposed method largely
enhances the system performance compared to reference algorithms, by an
appropriate adaptation of the mmWave beamwidths, even under severe
uncertainties and imperfect channel state information (CSIs).Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, 1 algorith
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