Efficient and Fair Rate Allocation scheme for multi-user over heterogeneous wireless access networks

Xudong Ding; Huifang Chen; Lei Xie

5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Efficient and Fair Rate Allocation scheme for multi-user over heterogeneous wireless access networks

Download475 downloads

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/chinacom.2010.50,
    author={Xudong Ding and Huifang Chen and Lei Xie},
    title={Efficient and Fair Rate Allocation scheme for multi-user over heterogeneous wireless access networks},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2011},
    month={1},
    keywords={multi-user heterogeneous networks utility bandwith allocation},
    doi={10.4108/chinacom.2010.50}
}

Xudong Ding
Huifang Chen
Lei Xie
Year: 2011
Efficient and Fair Rate Allocation scheme for multi-user over heterogeneous wireless access networks
CHINACOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/chinacom.2010.50

Xudong Ding¹^,*, Huifang Chen^1,2^,*, Lei Xie^1,2^,*

1: Dept. of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
2: Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Network Technology, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China

*Contact email: dxd@zju.edu.cn, chenhf@zju.edu.cn, xiel@zju.edu.cn

Abstract

Allocating bandwidth to multiple users sharing multiple heterogeneous access networks is an important issue in the next generation wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a bandwidth allocation scheme named as Efficient and Fair Allocation in Rate (EFAR), which is formulated as a convex optimization problem that maximizes the utility of each user and determines how to split the total rate among the multiple access networks. Compared with the scheme that minimizes the total expected distortion of all the video streams and other schemes that only consider the system efficiency or the user fairness, the EFAR scheme considers both efficiency and fairness, and achieves a more balanced utility among all the users.

Keywords: multi-user heterogeneous networks utility bandwith allocation

Published: 2011-01-10
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/chinacom.2010.50

Efficient and Fair Rate Allocation scheme for multi-user over heterogeneous wireless access networks

Abstract

About EAI

Community

Publish with EAI