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Erschienen in: Wireless Networks 4/2020

22.05.2019

Joint QoS-control and handover optimization in backhaul aware SDN-based LTE networks

verfasst von: Furqan Hameed Khan, Marius Portmann

Erschienen in: Wireless Networks | Ausgabe 4/2020

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Abstract

Future cellular networks will be dense and require key traffic management technologies for fine-grained network control. The problem gets more complicated in the presence of different network segments with bottleneck links limiting the desired quality of service (QoS) delivery to the last mile user. In this work, we first design a framework for software-defined cellular networks and then propose new mechanisms for management of QoS and non-QoS users traffic considering both access and backhaul networks, jointly. The overall SDN-LTE system and related approaches are developed and tested using network simulator in different network environments. Especially, when the users are non-uniformly distributed, the results shows that compared to other approaches, the proposed load distribution algorithm enables at least 6% and 23% increase in the average QoS user downlink throughput and the aggregate throughput of 40% users with lowest throughput (edge users), respectively. Also, the proposed system efficiently achieves desired QoS and handles the network congestion without incurring significant overhead.

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Fußnoten
1
\({\bar{\rho }}_{GBR} (t)\) is the average network load that reflects the channel metric.
 
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e.g. eNodeB 1 in Scenario 1, and eNodeB 4 in Scenario 2 and 3.
 
3
Since multiple controllers will be distributed across the network infrastructure with each controller located close enough to the BS resulting in even lower latency.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Joint QoS-control and handover optimization in backhaul aware SDN-based LTE networks
verfasst von
Furqan Hameed Khan
Marius Portmann
Publikationsdatum
22.05.2019
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Wireless Networks / Ausgabe 4/2020
Print ISSN: 1022-0038
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8196
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-019-02021-7

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