Prioritized Call Admission Control of Multiservice Hierarchical Wireless Networks

Shun-Ping CHUNG
Min-Tsang LI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.6    pp.2566-2577
Publication Date: 2005/06/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.6.2566
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
hierarchical network,  soft handoff,  handoff queue,  call admission control,  call holding time,  

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Summary: 
Call admission control of multiservice hierarchical wireless networks supporting soft handoff is studied, where users with different average call holding times are assigned to different layers, i.e., microcells in the lower layer are used to carry users with shorter call holding time, whereas macrocells in the upper layer are for users with longer call holding time. Further, to give handoff calls priority over new calls, handoff queues are provided for handoff calls that can not obtain the required channel immediately. According to whether handoff queues are provided in microcells and/or macrocells, four different call admission control schemes are proposed and studied. We derive the mathematical model of the considered system with multi- dimensional Markov process, and find the steady state probability distribution iteratively and thus the performance measures of interest: new call blocking probability, forced termination probability, and mean waiting time in handoff queue. Analytical results show that providing handoff queues in both microcells and macrocells can achieve the best blocking performance at the expense of mean waiting time in handoff queue.