Quality of Real-Time Streaming in Wireless Cellular Networks : Stochastic Analytic Evaluation
Résumé
We present a new stochastic service model with service capacity sharing and interruptions, meant to be useful for the performance evaluation and dimensioning of wireless cellular networks offering real-time streaming, like e.g. mobile TV. Our general model takes into account Markovian, multi-class process of call arrivals, arbitrary streaming time distribution, and allows for a general service (outage) policy saying which users are temporarily denied the service due to insufficient service capacity. Using Palm theory formalism, we develop expressions for several important characteristics of this model, including mean time spent in outage and mean number of outage incidents for a typical user of a given class. We also propose some natural class of least-effort-served-first service policies, for which the aforementioned expressions can be efficiently evaluated on the basis of the Fourier analysis of Poisson process. Last but not least, we show how our model can be used to analyse the quality of real-time streaming in 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular networks. We identify and evaluate an optimal and a fair service policy, the latter being suggested by LTE implementations, as well as propose some intermediate policies which allow to solve the optimality/fairness trade-off caused by unequal user radio-channel conditions.
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