2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

Cross-layer scheduler design with QoS support for wireless access networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/QSHINE.2005.16,
        author={ Qingwen  Liu and G.B. Giannakis and Wang Xin  },
        title={Cross-layer scheduler design with QoS support for wireless access networks},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2005},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/QSHINE.2005.16}
    }
    
  • Qingwen Liu
    G.B. Giannakis
    Wang Xin
    Year: 2005
    Cross-layer scheduler design with QoS support for wireless access networks
    QSHINE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/QSHINE.2005.16
Qingwen Liu1, G.B. Giannakis1, Wang Xin 1
  • 1: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN

Abstract

cheduling plays an important role in providing quality of service (QoS) support for multimedia networks. We propose a cross-layer scheduler at the medium access control (MAC) layer for multiple connections with diverse QoS requirements, where each connection employs adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme at the physical (PHY) layer. Each connection is assigned a priority, which is updated dynamically based on its channel and service quality; and the connection with the highest priority is scheduled each time. Our scheduler provides diverse QoS guarantees, uses the wireless bandwidth efficiently and enjoys flexibility, scalability and low implementation complexity. The performance of our scheduler is evaluated via simulations in the IEEE 802.16 standard setting