Call admission control policies in cellular wireless networks with spectrum renting
Radio spectrum is scarce and precious resource in wireless networks. To efficiently utilize radio spectrum, a wireless network can rent radio channels from another wireless network and returns back the rented channels when the rented channels are required to be withdrawn. The rental and withdrawal of radio channels result in two phenomena: (i) variable number of radio channels in a wireless network and (ii) call dropping due to the channel withdrawal. Call admission control aims to provide good quality-of-services for mobile users while efficiently utilize radio channels. Many call admission control policies in the previous literatures were studied without the two phenomena. In this paper, we study three call admission control policies, namely, fixed-reservation policy, single-threshold policy and multiple-threshold policy in a wireless network which rents channels from another wireless network. We develop numerical analyses to analyze and compare the performances of the three call admission control policies. Numerical results show that the multiple-threshold policy produces higher throughput than the single-threshold and fixed-reservation policies under the same constraint of quality-of-services. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
call admission control cellular wireless networks spectrum renting quality-of-service