Packet and Resource Plan Scheduling (PARPS) - with Application to Mobile IP over DVB-T

The Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting system (DVB-T) can be utilized as a supplemental broadband downlink to today´s cellular systems. Thus, mobile Internet access with downstream peek bit rates of 10 to 30 Mbit/s can be achieved. To make this concept competitive in comparison to for example UMTS, efficient Radio Resource Management (RRM) is essential. Schemes for downlink dynamic RRM on a packet-by-packet basis are suggested and evaluated for a simplified packet data model. Packet and Resource Plan Scheduling (PARPS) schemes reduce the problem of finding an optimized combination of several RRM parameters to a scheduling problem. Dynamic Single Frequency Networks (DSFN) and Virtual Cellular Networks (VCN) exploits the macro-diversity capability of the OFDM modulation scheme by dynamically forming groups of transmitters that send the same information on the same frequency channel simultaneously. Dynamic Packet Assignment (DPA) is a combination of Dynamic Channel Assignment (DCA) and packet scheduling. The Fairly Shared Spectrum Efficiency (FSSE), in bit/s/Hz/transmitter site, is improved by up to 370% for a certain test cases, by the DSFN scheme in comparison to DPA.