4th International ICST Conference on Wireless Internet

Research Article

What is optimal scheduling in wireless networks?∗

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.WICON2008.4991,
        author={Anna Pantelidou and Anthony Ephremides},
        title={What is optimal scheduling in wireless networks?∗},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Wireless Internet},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={WICON},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.WICON2008.4991}
    }
    
  • Anna Pantelidou
    Anthony Ephremides
    Year: 2010
    What is optimal scheduling in wireless networks?∗
    WICON
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.WICON2008.4991
Anna Pantelidou1,*, Anthony Ephremides1,*
  • 1: Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
*Contact email: apantel@umd.edu, etony@umd.edu

Abstract

We consider a wireless network consisting of multiple transmitters with multicast traffic destined for a set of receivers. We are interested in the problem of joint scheduling and rate control under two performance objectives; the objective of maximizing the total sum throughput of the network and of being proportionally fair with respect to the received rate at each receiver. We first consider static wireless networks, and then extend our analysis for the more general and more realistic case of time-varying networks. We finally verify our analytical results through a set of simulations.