Delay-Guaranteed Scheduling and Flow Control for New Generation Mobile Networks

Since video traffic has become a dominant flow component on the Internet, the Future Internet and New Generation Network must consider delay guarantees as a key feature in their designs. Using the stochastic network optimization, optimal control policies are designed for delay-constrained traffic in single-hop wireless networks. The resulting policy is a scheduling policy with delay guarantees. For a cross-layer design that involves both flow control and scheduling, the resulting policy is a flow control and scheduling policy that guarantees delay constraints and achieves utility performance within O(1/V) of the optimality.