Research Article
Neighbours-Aware Proportional Fair Scheduler for Future Wireless Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_12, author={Charles Katila and Melchiorre Abrignani and Roberto Verdone}, title={Neighbours-Aware Proportional Fair Scheduler for Future Wireless Networks}, proceedings={Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2016}, month={6}, keywords={Proportional Fair Neighbours-Aware Primary users Secondary users Unslotted CSMA Packet delivery rate Fairness}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_12} }- Charles Katila
Melchiorre Abrignani
Roberto Verdone
Year: 2016
Neighbours-Aware Proportional Fair Scheduler for Future Wireless Networks
CROWNCOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_12
Abstract
In this paper, we present an uplink scenario where primary and secondary users coexist on the same set of radio resources. The primary users rely solely on a centralised scheduler within the base station for the assignment of resources, and the secondary users rely on an unslotted Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) protocol for channel access. We propose a novel centralised scheduling algorithm, Neighbours-Aware Proportional Fair (N-PF), which considers the uplink channel state conditions and the number of secondary users neighbouring each primary user in the aggregate scheduling metric. Through simulations we demonstrate that N-PF outperforms the chosen benchmark algorithm, Proportional Fair (PF), in terms of packet delivery rate while maintaining fairness.