Call Admission Control for Integrated Voice/Data Services in Cellular/WLAN Interworking

Call admission control plays an important role in quality of service (QoS) provisioning in the interworking between the cellular network and wireless local area network (WLAN). Within the WLAN coverage, a service request can be admitted into the cellular network or the WLAN. Due to the heterogeneous underlying QoS support of the cellular network and WLANs, the admission of traffic in the WLAN coverage has a significant impact on QoS satisfaction and overall resource utilization, especially when multiple services are considered. A popular admission strategy (referred to as WLAN-first scheme) is to admit the incoming service requests into the WLAN whenever it is available so as to take advantage of the low cost and large bandwidth of the WLAN. In this paper, we investigate the performance of the WLAN-first scheme. It is observed that the overall resource utilization can be maximized when the admission regions for voice and data services in a cell and a WLAN are properly configured.

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