An FDD wideband CDMA MAC protocol for wireless multimedia networks

A medium access control (MAC) protocol is developed for wireless multimedia networks based on frequency division duplex (FDD) wideband code division multiple access (CDMA). In this protocol, the received power levels of simultaneously transmitting users are controlled by a minimum-power allocation algorithm such that the heterogeneous bit error rates (BERs) of multimedia traffic are guaranteed. With minimum-power allocation, a multimedia wideband CDMA generalized processor sharing (GPS) scheduling scheme is proposed. It provides fair queueing to multimedia traffic with different QoS constraints. It also takes into account the limited number of code channels for each user and the variable system capacity due to interference experienced by users in a CDMA network. The admission of real-time connections is determined by a new effective bandwidth connection admission control (CAC) algorithm in which the minimum-power allocation is also considered. Simulation results show that the new MAC protocol guarantees QoS requirements of both real-time and nonreal-time traffic in an FDD wideband CDMA network.

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