Class-Based Service Connectivity using Multi-Level Bandwidth Adaptation in Multimedia Wireless Networks
This work addresses quality of service prioritization for traffic classes in wireless networks, but it is incremental as it builds on existing bandwidth adaptation techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of accommodating higher priority calls in multimedia wireless networks by proposing a multi-level bandwidth adaptation model that releases bandwidth from existing calls based on request priority and adaptive call count, resulting in negligible handover call dropping probability and significantly reduced new call blocking probability for higher priority calls without increasing overall forced call termination probability.
Due to the fact that quality of service requirements are not very strict for all traffic types, more calls of higher priority can be accommodated by reducing some bandwidth allocation for the bandwidth adaptive calls. The bandwidth adaptation to accept a higher priority call is more than that of a lower priority call. Therefore, the multi-level bandwidth adaptation technique improves the overall forced call termination probability as well as provides priority of the traffic classes in terms of call blocking probability without reducing the bandwidth utilization. We propose a novel bandwidth adaptation model that releases multi-level of bandwidth from the existing multimedia traffic calls. The amount of released bandwidth is decided based on the priority of the requesting traffic calls and the number of existing bandwidth adaptive calls. This prioritization of traffic classes does not reduce the bandwidth utilization. Moreover, our scheme reduces the overall forced call termination probability significantly. The proposed scheme is modeled using the Markov Chain. The numerical results show that the proposed scheme is able to provide negligible handover call dropping probability as well as significantly reduced new call blocking probability of higher priority calls without increasing the overall forced call termination probability.