<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The problem of non-uniform traffic demand in different cells of a cellular network may lead to a gross imbalance in the system performance. Thus, the users in hot cells may suffer from low throughput. In this paper, an effective and simple load balancing scheme CAC_DPLB_MCN is proposed that can effectively reduce the overall call blocking. This model considers dealing with multi-media traffic as well as time-varying geographical traffic distribution. The proposed scheme uses the concept of cell-tiering thereby creating fractional frequency reuse environment. A message exchange based distributed scheme instead of centralized one is used which help the proposed scheme be implemented in a multiple hot cell environment also. Furthermore, concept of dynamic pricing is used to serve the best interest of the users as well as for the service providers. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared with two other existing schemes in terms of call blocking probability and bandwidth utilization. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce the call blocking significantly in highly congested cell with highest bandwidth utilization. Use of dynamic pricing also makes the scheme useful to increase revenue of the service providers in contrast with compared schemes.</p></abstract>

The problem of non-uniform traffic demand in different cells of a cellular network may lead to a gross imbalance in the system performance. Thus, the users in hot cells may suffer from low throughput. In this paper, an effective and simple load balancing scheme CAC_DPLB_MCN is proposed that can effectively reduce the overall call blocking. This model considers dealing with multi-media traffic as well as time-varying geographical traffic distribution. The proposed scheme uses the concept of cell-tiering thereby creating fractional frequency reuse environment. A message exchange based distributed scheme instead of centralized one is used which help the proposed scheme be implemented in a multiple hot cell environment also. Furthermore, concept of dynamic pricing is used to serve the best interest of the users as well as for the service providers. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared with two other existing schemes in terms of call blocking probability and bandwidth utilization. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce the call blocking significantly in highly congested cell with highest bandwidth utilization. Use of dynamic pricing also makes the scheme useful to increase revenue of the service providers in contrast with compared schemes.

CAC DPLB MCN: A Distributed Load Balancing Scheme in Multimedia Mobile Cellular Networks

Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Durgapur - 713209, West Bengal,

Microsoft Global Delivery India Pvt. Ltd., Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500032, Telangana,

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, Burdwan, West Bengal,

Department of Computer Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah - 711103, West Bengal,

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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The problem of non-uniform traffic demand in different cells of a cellular network may lead to a gross imbalance in the system performance. Thus, the users in...

CAC DPLB MCN: A Distributed Load Balancing Scheme in Multimedia Mobile Cellular Networks

Published Online: Dec 13, 2016

Page range: 261 - 296

Received: Nov 02, 2015

Accepted: Oct 03, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2016-0015

Keywords
Call Carrying Capacity, Cellular Network, Channel Allocation, Frequency Reuse Partitioning, Load Balancing

© by Abhijit Sharma

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

CAC DPLB MCN: A Distributed Load Balancing Scheme in Multimedia Mobile Cellular Networks

Published Online: Dec 13, 2016

Page range: 261 - 296

Received: Nov 02, 2015

Accepted: Oct 03, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2016-0015

KeywordsCall Carrying Capacity, Cellular Network, Channel Allocation, Frequency Reuse Partitioning, Load Balancing

© by Abhijit Sharma

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Call Carrying Capacity, Cellular Network, Channel Allocation, Frequency Reuse Partitioning, Load Balancing