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Downlink traffic control for multiple classes of services in MC-CDMA cellular systems

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We consider the problem of downlink traffic control in Multi-code Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) systems, which support multiple classes of services with diverse QoS requirements. Prior solutions proposed for this problem have largely focused on call admission control at the connection level while neglecting the stochastic behavior of mobile subscribers and channel conditions. We quantitatively demonstrate that these statistical factors, in particular log-normal shadowing in propagation and voice activity factors, have a significant impact on the connection-level performance. Furthermore, we show that conventional data services can be best handled at the packet level as background transmissions by taking advantage of these statistical variations, which leads to significantly better utilization of the scarce wireless spectrum.

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Correspondence to Bo Li.

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The research was supported in part by grants from RGC under the contracts HKUST6104/04E and HKUST6165/05E, a grant from NSFC/RGC under the contract N_HKUST605/02, a grant from NSF China under the contract 60429202. Jihui Zhang’s work was partially supported by Microsoft fellowship.

Jihui Zhang (S’02) received her B.S. degree from Fudan University, China in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005, both in the Computer Science. Her research interests include CDMA cellular networks and wireless ad-hoc networks.

Bo Li (S’89-M’92-SM’99) received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees in the Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1993. Between 1993 and 1996, he worked on high performance routers and ATM switches in IBM Networking System Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Since 1996, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he is now an associated professor and Co-Director for the ATM/IP Cooperate Research Center, a government sponsored research center. He also holds an adjunct researcher position at the Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China, and adjunct professorship in several universities.

His recent research interests are on adaptive video multicast, packet scheduling and dynamic routing in optical networks, resource management in mobile wireless systems, scheduling and energy efficient routing in ad hoc networks, across layer design for sensor networks, and content distribution and replication. He has published 150 papers and held several patents in above areas. He has been on editorial board for 16 journals, mainly in IEEE and ACM. He has been involved in organizing over 40 conferences, esp. IEEE Infocom since 1996. He was the Co-TPC Chair for IEEE Infocom 2004.

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Zhang, J., Li, B. Downlink traffic control for multiple classes of services in MC-CDMA cellular systems. Mobile Netw Appl 11, 613–624 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-006-7325-8

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