Performance analysis of multi-service wireless network: An approach integrating CAC, scheduling, and buffer management

Traffic management (TM) mechanisms such as Call Admission Control (CAC), Scheduling, and Buffer Management (BM) play a key role in the design of multi-service wireless network by providing service differentiation from diverse applications and assigning the network resources (radio channels or buffer) according to the quality of service (QoS) requirements of each service class. We propose in this work two new models that integrate CAC, Scheduling, and BM in the design of multi-service wireless network. By presenting their Markovian models and their performance metrics, we investigate their respective design tradeoffs and compare their performance. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.