An interference-controlled admission control scheme for QoS support in distributed UWB networks

Power controlled RRC (Radio Resource Control) is becoming the most attractive paradigm to provide efficient and flexible access for future wireless communications, both in public cellular systems and in local area ones. We aim at investigating how the design of an interferencecontrolled RRC protocol leads to an efficient support of traffic requiring Quality of Service (QoS). This work has been developed in the framework of the European IST whyless.com project where the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radio technology is used to supply an Open Mobile Access Network. Radio resource management is performed in a distributed fashion with cooperation among the network entities, exploiting the UWB characteristics. We propose an RRC approach based on margins on the desired QoS and we compare this approach with other proposals.

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