Resource management with service guarantee and differentiation in broadband multimedia-enabled wireless networks

摘要

We have recently witnessed a phenomenal growth in the development and deployment of wireless services, evident from the proliferation of the cellular data services and the emerging wireless multimedia applications. This opens up a new avenue for research, and calls for the re-examination of some of the fundamental issues in wireless cellular networks. With the cell size being systematically reduced into micro-cell and pico-cell systems, in order to increase the overall network capacity, one of the key challenges is the design of effective call admission control (CAC) policies, which have to guarantee potentially different quality of service (QoS) requirements from diverse traffic types while at the same time maintaining high utilization of the scarce wireless bandwidth. The objectives of this article are to review the key issues involved in the design of call admission control policies based on some of the recent proposals, and to discuss the challenges associated to offer effective support for multi-services.