Dynamic Buffer Management for Multimedia QoS in Beyond 3G Wireless Networks.docVIP

IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, 36:4, IJCS_36_4_14 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Dynamic Buffer Management for Multimedia QoS in Beyond 3G Wireless Networks Suleiman Y. Yerima and Khalid Al-Begain and employs fast link adaptation for downlink data transfer to Abstract— This paper investigates a dynamic buffer man- agement scheme for QoS control of multimedia services in be- yond 3G wireless systems. The scheme is studied in the context of the state-of-the-art 3.5G system i.e. the High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) which enhances 3G UMTS to support high-speed packet switched services. Unlike earlier systems, UMTS-evolved systems from HSDPA and beyond incorporate mechanisms such as packet scheduling and HARQ in the base station necessitating data buffering at the air interface. This introduces a potential bottleneck to end-to-end communication. Hence, buffer management at the air interface is crucial for end-to-end QoS support of multimedia services with multi- plexed parallel diverse flows such as video and data in the same end-user session. The dynamic buffer management scheme for HSDPA multimedia sessions with aggregated real-time and non mobile stations. The fast link adaptation feature is based on Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC), Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) and a shorter minimum allocation time (transmission time interval, TTI) of 2ms. In addition to these physical layer features, the packet scheduling func- tionality is moved from the centralized radio network con- troller (RNC) to the base station (Node B), where it is em- bedded in a new MAC entity known as MAC-hs. The higher data rate capability of HSDPA will allow ap- plication developers to create content rich ‘multimedia’ ap- plications and services, typically consisting of a number of classes of media or data- with different Qual