Joint resource allocation for WLAN&WCDMA integrated networks based on spectral bandwidth mapping

Abstract

Next wireless network aims to integrate heterogeneous wireless access networks by sharing wireless resource. The spectral bandwidth mapping concept is proposed to uniformly describe the resource in heterogeneous wireless networks. The resources of codes and power levels in WCDMA system as well as statistical time slots in WLAN are mapped into equivalent bandwidth which can be allocated in different networks and layers. The equivalent bandwidth is jointly distributed in call admission and vertical handoff control process in an integrated WLAN/WCDMA system to optimize the network utility and guarantee the heterogeneous QoS required by calls. Numerical results show that, when the incoming traffic is moderate, the proposed scheme could receive 5%–10% increase of system revenue compared to the MDP based algorithms.