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A Unified Mechanism for Multimedia Downlink Scheduling and Call Admission Control for Future Error-Prone Wireless Networks

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In this paper we design and evaluate the performance of a unified mechanism for downlink scheduling and call admission control of multimedia traffic in a high-capacity TDMA wireless channel. In our scheme, the Base Station interacts with the Call Admission Controller and incorporates predictions on the channel condition in its decision making. Our results show that, with the use of the “intelligent” scheduler-admission controller mechanism, system performance is significantly enhanced compared to two other schemes without prediction on the channel condition.

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Polychronis Koutsakis was born in Hania, Greece, in 1974. He received his 5-year Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Patras, Greece and his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 1999 and 2002, respectively, from the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department of the same University. His research interests focus on the design, modeling and performance evaluation of wireless personal communication networks, and especially on the design and evaluation of multiple access schemes for multimedia integration over wireless and mobile satellite networks, on call admission control and traffic policing schemes for both wireless and wired networks and on traffic modeling. Dr. Koutsakis has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed papers in the above mentioned areas, and serves as a reviewer for many of the major journal publications focused on his research field. He is a member of the Greek Chamber of Professional Engineers and of the Greek Association of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

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Koutsakis, P. A Unified Mechanism for Multimedia Downlink Scheduling and Call Admission Control for Future Error-Prone Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 34, 395–409 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-3494-1

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