Personal Satellite Services. 4th International ICST Conference, PSATS 2012, Bradford, UK, March 22-23, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

rtPS Scheduling with QoE Metrics in Joint WiMAX/Satellite Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_1,
        author={Anastasia Lygizou and Spyros Xergias and Nikos Passas},
        title={rtPS Scheduling with QoE Metrics in Joint WiMAX/Satellite Networks},
        proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. 4th International ICST Conference, PSATS 2012, Bradford, UK, March 22-23, 2012. Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={PSATS},
        year={2013},
        month={4},
        keywords={DVB-RCS WiMAX QoE rtPS scheduling},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_1}
    }
    
  • Anastasia Lygizou
    Spyros Xergias
    Nikos Passas
    Year: 2013
    rtPS Scheduling with QoE Metrics in Joint WiMAX/Satellite Networks
    PSATS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_1
Anastasia Lygizou1,*, Spyros Xergias1,*, Nikos Passas1,*
  • 1: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
*Contact email: lygizou@di.uoa.gr, xergias@di.uoa.gr, passas@di.uoa.gr

Abstract

This paper improves a previously proposed scheduling algorithm that is responsible to share the allocated capacity to the uplink traffic of an integrated satellite and WiMAX network. The target of this improvement is to schedule traffic of real time connections based on Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics. After a bibliographic search on QoE metrics, the FC-MDI (Frame Classification-Media Delivery Index) metric is chosen to be used in the proposed algorithm for the scheduling of real time connections. Two versions of the algorithm are proposed and evaluated. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm considerably improves the QoE and the mean delay of the real time connections.