Efficient resource allocation for statistical QOS assurances in HDR based wireless packet data

Abstract

In this paper we present new scheduling algorithms for the HDR wireless packet data system to provide superior statistical QoS guarantees. Here, instead of QoS assurances we guarantee the percentage of time the QoS requirements are satisfied and develop new scheduling algorithms accordingly. We compare these schedulers with the maximum rate, proportional fair and exponential rules from the literature. We observe that the statistical QoS guarantee is an attractive alternative to the assured QoS for the wireless platform since such strict QoS assurances decrease the wireless system performance significantly.