Radio-Resource Management and Access-Control Mechanism Based on a Novel Economic Model in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we first investigate the radio-resource management and network-selection schemes in heterogeneous wireless networks. Then, we propose a novel economic model to allocate radio resources for both code-division multiple-access (CDMA) networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs). Particularly, the resource-usage constraint is deduced in the CDMA uplink, where the radio resource is allocated with the aim of maximizing the total welfare of the CDMA network while satisfying the signal quality requirement of all mobile users. Moreover, we formulate and solve the optimization problem in the WLAN to maximize the network welfare when the maximum throughput in the WLAN is achieved by controlling the optimum collision probability. An approximated closed-form expression for the network welfare is also given when the assigned bandwidth for each user is close to the bandwidth request. Finally, we design the joint access-control mechanism under different load conditions in coupled heterogeneous networks. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme can achieve approximately 20% more users and 10% more network social welfare, which outperforms the utility-function-based access selection and single network access-control mechanisms in the literature for heterogeneous wireless networks.