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Network-Level QoS Assurances Through Adaptive Allocation of CDMA Resources

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In a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network, multiple Mobile Hosts (MHs) can simultaneously transmit over the wireless channel by using different codes. To assure an acceptable Quality of Service (QoS) for all MHs' flows, the network usually tunes the transmit powers of all MHs to achieve a certain level of signal strength as compared to the noise and the interference (SINR) for each MH. The traditional assumption in power control schemes is that the SINR requirement is statically determined for each MH's flow.

In contrast, in this paper, we propose a scheme that dynamically adapts the SINR requirements of MH's flow based on its QoS requirements and the conditions of the wireless channel between the MHs and the base station. As a result of this adaptation, we show that network-level QoS measures such as fraction of packets meeting their delay requirements and energy consumed per packet transmission are significantly better than in a scheme that statically fixes the SINR requirements. We show that the adaptation approach works well for the Matched Filter (MF) and the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) receivers.

Our scheme uses a simple table-driven approach for optimally selecting the target SINR requirement for each MH at run time. The entries in the table are computed off-line using a dynamic programming algorithm with the objective of maximizing a profit function that balances the need for meeting the network-level QoS requirements and the cost of using a particular target SINR for a given transmission.

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  1. Computer Communications Research Lab, Telcordia Technologies Inc., Piscataway, NJ, 08854-4156

    Moncef Elaoud

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706-1691

    Bechir Hamdaoui & Parameswaran Ramanathan

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Moncef Elaoud (M'97) received his B.Sc. (1988) his M.Sc. (1990) and his Ph.D. (2000) in electrical an computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently a senior research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies' Applied Research organization. His main research interests are in the areas of quality of service, self-forming and self healing networks, auto-configuration, and mobility management in wireless and ad-hoc networks.

Bechir Hamdaoui received the B.S. degrees in both electrical and mechanical engineering, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the National School of Engineering in Tunis (BAC+6+DEA, ENIT), Tunisia, in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He also received the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wiconsin, Madison, WI, in 2002, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree. From 1998 to 1999, he worked as a quality control and planning engineer on power generation plant project under the supervision of FIAT Avio. His research focuses on various aspects in the area of computer networking including mobile networks, wireless communication systems, and ad hoc networks.

Parameswaran Ramanathan received the B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1984, and the M. S. E. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Since 1989, Dr. Ramanathan has been faculty member in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, where is presently a Full Professor. He leads research projects in the areas of sensor networks and next generation cellular technology. In 1997–98, he took a sabbatical leave to visit research groups at AT&T Laboratories and Telcordia Technologies.

Dr. Ramanathan's research interests include wireless and wireline networking, real-time systems, fault-tolerant computing, and distributed systems. He is presently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and Elsevier AdHoc Networks Journal. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing from 1996–1999. He has also served on program committees of conferences such as Mobicom, Mobihoc, International Conferences on Distributed Systems and Networks, Distributed Computing Systems, Fault-tolerant Computing Symposium, Real-time Systems Symposium, Conference on Local Computer Networks, and International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems. He was the Finance and Registration Chair for the 1999 Fault-tolerant Computing Symposium. He was the program chairman of the Workshop on Architectures for Real-time Applications, 1994 and the program vice-chair for the International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems, 1996. He is a member of Association of Computing Machinery and a senior member of IEEE.

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Elaoud, M., Hamdaoui, B. & Ramanathan, P. Network-Level QoS Assurances Through Adaptive Allocation of CDMA Resources. Wireless Netw 12, 79–90 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-6152-y

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