Vasilios A. Siris,
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH
Bob Briscoe, Dave Songhurst,
BT Research, Ipswich, UK
In Proc. of 3rd Int'l Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS'02),
Zurich, Switzerland, October 16-18, 2002
Preprint: [pdf]
Abstract
We present and analyse an approach to service differentiation in third generation mobile networks based on Wideband CDMA, that exposes a new weighting parameter designed to reflect allocation of the congestible resource. The approach naturally takes into account the difference in resource scarcity for the uplink and downlink, because it is grounded on fundamental economic models for efficient utilization of resources in WCDMA. If required, discrete values of this weight parameter can be presented as different service classes. Finally we present numerical experiments demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach, and investigate its performance and transient behaviour under power control and signal quality estimation errors. Keywords: resource usage, class-based, power control, congestion control