A Survey of Scheduling Theory in Wireless Data Networks

We survey some results for scheduling data in wireless data systems such as lxEV-DO. An important feature of such systems is that the channel rates between the basestation and the mobile users are both user-dependent and time-varying. The wireless data scheduling problem has recently received a great deal of attention in the literature. However, comparisons of results are sometimes difficult due to the fact that many different models have been studied. In this survey we describe some of the models that have been proposed and analyze the performance of different scheduling algorithms within these models.

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