An optimization framework for balancing throughput and fairness in wireless networks with QoS support

Ho Ting  Cheng; Weihua  Zhuang

3rd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

An optimization framework for balancing throughput and fairness in wireless networks with QoS support

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

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    author={Ho Ting  Cheng and Weihua  Zhuang},
    title={An optimization framework for balancing throughput and fairness in wireless networks with QoS support},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2006},
    month={8},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1145/1185373.1185400}
}

Ho Ting Cheng
Weihua Zhuang
Year: 2006
An optimization framework for balancing throughput and fairness in wireless networks with QoS support
QSHINE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1185373.1185400

Ho Ting Cheng¹^,*, Weihua Zhuang¹^,*

1: Department of Electrical and Computer, Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

*Contact email: htcheng@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, wzhuang@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Abstract

Throughput and fairness are conflicting performance metrics, leading to a natural tradeoff between these two measures. In this paper, we derive a generic optimization framework to obtain a relationship of system throughput and fairness, by introducing the bargaining floor. From the relationship curve, different degrees of performance tradeoff between throughput and fairness can be obtained by choosing different bargaining floors. The solutions of resource allocation obtained from the optimization framework achieve the Pareto Optimality, demonstrating efficient use of network resources.

Published: 2006-08-09
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1185373.1185400