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Enhanced VoIP Support in OFDMA-based Packet Radio Networks

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As the first OFDMA-based cellular packet radio network, Evolved UTRAN has already been well studied in 3GPP and semi-persistent scheduling was selected as the most relevant packet scheduling scheme for VoIP traffic. With further evolution of Evolved UTRAN to meet the ambitious goal set by IMT-A, the performance of VoIP needs to be enhanced. In this article, we establish a semi-persistent scheduling centered framework for efficient VoIP support in OFDMA-based packet radio network and evaluate different enhancement methods, such as adaptive transmission bandwidth in persistent resource allocation, dynamic packet bundling, and frequency diversity transmission that can be added into this framework. In addition, we investigate practical constraints, e.g. wideband CQI reporting on real network performance as well as possible corrective measures. The whole system design is verified through large-scale network level simulations in which all the details of various VoIP-specific radio resource management algorithms and enhancement mechanisms as well as interactions between them are explicitly modeled. Simulation results indicate that VoIP in Evolved UTRAN can be well supported using this framework and further improved through different enhancement methods. Compared with fixed transmission bandwidth approach, adaptive transmission bandwidth approach can provide additional capacity gain of 11 and 8% respectively in 3GPP Macro Case 1 and Case 3 deployment scenario. In a highly-loaded network, switching from adaptive transmission bandwidth to dynamic packet bundling can accommodate 18 and 15% more users in Case 1 and 3 respectively. The performance degradation due to wideband CQI reporting can be partly compensated with frequency diversity transmission. It is finally concluded that the enhanced performance of VoIP is sufficient to meet the ambitious target set by IMT-A in all four ITU deployment scenarios.

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Fan, Y., Valkama, M. Enhanced VoIP Support in OFDMA-based Packet Radio Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 66, 343–366 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0345-0

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