A new Channel-and QoS-Aware Scheduling Scheme for Real-time Services in LTE Network

Abstract

This paper proposes a new scheduling scheme which is based on Channel-and QoS-Aware for real-time traffics in LTE down-link direction. The real-time services (VoIP, Video, etc.) are very sensitive to network impairments such as delay, packet loss, jit-ter, etc. The proposed scheduling scheme considers Maximum Queue Size (MQS) as an essential factor for the priority metric and the combination of well-known M-LWDF-based algorithms such as M-LWDF, VT-MLWDF and Queue-HOL-MLWDF. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme has the performance which not only satisfies QoS requirements of real-time services but also outperforms the M-LWDF, VT-MLWDF and Queue-HOL-MLWDF schedulers in terms of Packet Loss Rate (PLR), cell throughput, Fairness Index (FI) and Spectral Efficiency (SE), especially for Video flow. The proposed sched-uler also significantly improves the delay in comparison with the VT-MLWDF and Queue-HOL-MLWDF schedulers ones for both VoIP and Video flows. The performance evaluation is compared in terms of Delay, PLR, Throughput, FI and SE for M-LWDF, VT-MLWDF, Queue-HOL-MLWDF and the proposed schedulers.