University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.LTE-Advanced has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a 4G mobile communication system. It is also called IMT-Advanced or true 4G technology. LTE-Advanced is an evolution of LTE (Release-8) and backward compatible with LTE because they both use the same air-interface technologies such as OFDMA, MIMO, and the same core network.
Since radio spectrum is the most valuable resource in mobile technology, radio resource management (RRM) mechanisms are critical for the operation of a cellular network. One of the key RRM mechanisms is packet scheduling and it allocates suitable radio resources to each user for transmission of the downlink from the base station through the air interface to each mobile station.
The overall objectives of this project are to study packet scheduling mechanism for LTE-Advanced and find an optimized packet scheduling algorithm(s) to fully utilize new features and challenges of LTE-Advanced. This project is an extension of previous work done in packet scheduling in LTE at Centre for Real-time Information Networks (CRIN), UTS.
This thesis begins by explaining the design considerations used to create a computer simulation tool to model packet scheduling as well as other RRM mechanisms for LTE-Advanced. Thereafter, it will model, simulate, validate, and evaluate the performance of current well-known and new packet scheduling algorithms for LTE-Advanced. In this thesis, two new algorithms called optimized cross-CC proportional fair (OCPF) and optimized cross-CC M-LWDF (OCM) are proposed. (CC: component carrier)
The OCPF algorithm can overcome the weaknesses of current algorithms and improve system throughput. The OCM can provide a more effective solution for realistic traffic with strict requirement on the quality of services (QoS)
