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AnalysisofRadioResourceAllocationinLTE
Uplink
Wireless Personal Communications
December 2014, Volume 79, Issue3, pp 23052322
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SafdarNawazKhanMarwat,ThusharaWeerawardane,YasirZaki,CarmelitaGoerg,
AndreasTimm-Giel
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DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.1007/s11277-014-1986-6

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Marwat, S.N.K., Weerawardane, T., Zaki, Y. et al. Wireless Pers Commun (2014) 79:
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Abstract
Longtermevolution(LTE)usesorthogonalfrequencydivisionmultipleaccess
(OFDMA)andsinglecarrierfrequencydivisionmultipleaccess(SCFDMA)asthe
downlinkanduplinktransmissionschemesrespectively.TheQualityofService
(QoS)provisiontousersisoneofthekeyobjectivesofthewirelessnetwork
operators.ThispaperanalysesanuplinkLTEradioscheduler,calledbandwidth
andQoSaware(BQA)schedulerandevaluatesitsQoSperformance.TheBQA
uplinkschedulerisdesignedtoprovideefficientandfairallocationoftheradio
resourcestousersaccordingto:theQoSofvarioustrafficclassesandthe
instantaneouschannelconditions.Theschedulerfunctionalityisdividedintotime
domainpacketscheduling(TDPS)andfrequencydomainpacketscheduling
(FDPS).Inthispaper,aninnovativefeature,thatisuserQoSprovisioningwith
dynamicQoSweights,isemployedfortheBQAscheduleralongwithmultibearer
userssupport.TheQoSperformanceoftheBQAschedulerisanalyzedinseveral
simulationscenariosusingheterogeneoustrafficenvironment.Theresultsshow
thattheBQAschedulerguaranteesprovisionofQoStousers.
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Keywords
SCFDMA Uplink Scheduling QoS

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