Utility Proportional Fairness Resource Block Scheduling with Carrier Aggregation

In this chapter, we focus on solving the problem of utility PF resource block scheduling with CA for multi-carrier cellular networks. The resource scheduling approach presented in (Erpek et al., IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) Workshop CCS, 2015; Hou and Chen, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012, pp. 53485353) does not consider the case of multi-carrier resources available at the eNodeB. It only solves the problem of RB scheduling in the case of single carrier. We introduce an approach for resource block scheduling with carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced cellular networks. In our model, users are running elastic or inelastic traffic. We use logarithmic and sigmoidal-like utility functions to represent the applications running on the user equipment. Our objective is to assign resource blocks from multiple carriers based on a proportional fairness scheduling policy. In our approach, users are partitioned into different groups based on the carriers coverage area. In each group of users, the UEs are assigned RBs from all in band carriers. We use a utility proportional fairness approach in the utility percentage of the application running on the UE. Each user is guaranteed a minimum quality of service with a priority criterion that is based on the type of application running on the UE.

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