Optimal scheduling for fair resource allocation in Ad hoc networks with elastic and inelastic traffic

Juan José Jaramillo, R. Srikant

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Abstract

This paper studies the problem of congestion control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks that have to support a mixture of best-effort and real-time traffic. Optimization and stochastic network theory have been successful in designing architectures for fair resource allocation to meet long-term throughput demands. However, to the best of our knowledge, strict packet delay deadlines were not considered in this framework previously. In this paper, we propose a model for incorporating the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of packets with deadlines in the optimization framework. The solution to the problem results in a joint congestion control and scheduling algorithm that fairly allocates resources to meet the fairness objectives of both elastic and inelastic flows and per-packet delay requirements of inelastic flows.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5680987
Pages (from-to)1125-1136
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2011

Keywords

  • Ad hoc networks
  • best-effort traffic
  • congestion control
  • quality of service (QoS)
  • real-time traffic
  • scheduling
  • wireless networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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