Introduction of a Novel Hybrid Weighted Exponential Logarithm-Maximum Throughput (HWEL-MT) Scheduler for QoS Improvement of LTE/4G Cellular Networks

Abstract

The real-time broadcast of multimedia contents such as VoIP and video traffics in recent cellular networks is increasingly becoming common. In this regard, LTE networks with the objective of providing high speed data along with QoS assurance have been introduced. To perform this, schedulers in order to allocate of the resources to the traffics are used as channel-aware/QoS-aware. The most important and effective schedulers are EXP RULE and E2M RULE for this type of networks but still requires improving of QoS parameters to reach an optimal level of performance. In this paper aims to improve the packet loss rate (PLR), latency and throughput parameters especially and improve the other QoS parameters generally in the downlink LTE networks, a new scheduler called Hybrid Weighted Exponential Logarithm-Maximum Throughput (HWEL-MT) RULE method has been proposed. By performing simulations and comparisons between output results of EXP-Rule, E2M RULE and HWEL-MT RULE schedulers for VoIP, video and best effort traffics, we have totally concluded that the proposed HWEL-MT scheduler is able to improve PLR, delay, throughput, fairness and spectral efficiency more than two other examined methods. The results have been presented and compared by implementing a LTE network included 5---70 mobile users in open source LTE-Sim software.