QoS based scheduling in the downlink of multiuser wireless systems

Feng Wang, Mounir Hamdi

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Abstract

With the new available frame aggregation technology in the 802.11n WLAN, the base station is able to transmit two or more data streams to different users in the system simultaneously. This fact enables us to design a more QoS aware scheduler from the MAC layer. In this paper, we first formulate the scheduling problem with frame aggregation into a knapsack problem that is shown NP hard. Then we propose a simple approximation algorithm (LUUF) based on the unit urgency concept. Our analysis shows that the complexity of LUUF is O(n log n) and it achieves an approximation ratio of F 1/Fmax . We then show that in practice the complexity can be further reduced to O(n) and the approximation ratio can be made very near to 1, which make LUUF a promising candidate for wireless systems that support frame aggregation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQShine 2008 - 5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness
EditorsJiannong Cao, Lionel Ni
PublisherICST
ISBN (Electronic)9789639799264
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2008 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 28 Jul 200831 Jul 2008

Publication series

NameQShine 2008 - 5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Conference

Conference5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2008
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period28/07/0831/07/08

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