10th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Resource Allocation Schemes in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks based on Genetic Algorithm

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260649,
        author={Pei Wang and Weiwei Xia and Lianfeng Shen},
        title={Resource Allocation Schemes in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks based on Genetic Algorithm},
        proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2015},
        month={9},
        keywords={heterogeneous wireless network resource allocation genetic algorithm (ga) network utility quality of service (qos)},
        doi={10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260649}
    }
    
  • Pei Wang
    Weiwei Xia
    Lianfeng Shen
    Year: 2015
    Resource Allocation Schemes in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks based on Genetic Algorithm
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-8-2015.2260649
Pei Wang1,*, Weiwei Xia1, Lianfeng Shen1
  • 1: National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory ,Southeast University
*Contact email: wangpeidongnan@163.com

Abstract

In this paper, two resource allocation schemes based on genetic algorithm (GA) in heterogeneous wireless networks are proposed. The first scheme is called traffic-based resource allocation scheme (TRAS) which allocates the resource mainly based on the bandwidth requirements of traffic and bandwidth availability. In the second scheme which is called utility-based resource allocation scheme (URAS), traffic priority and the cost user pays for allocated resource are considered. The proposed schemes aim to find the optimum resource allocation to a set of mobile terminals (MTs) with quality of service (QoS) supporting by adopting GA which computes for each MT’s traffic an optimal number of basic bandwidth units (BBUs). The connection-level performance of both proposed resource allocation schemes are evaluated by using extensive simulations. The results demonstrate that substantial performance improvement can be achieved by applying the proposed URAS scheme compared to the existing solutions.