Performance Analysis of the Uplink of a CDMA Cell Supporting Elastic Services

We consider a single cell of a multi-service CDMA network, in which some of the service classes are explicit rate controlled. We call these elastic service classes. The instantaneous bit rate of elastic services is dynamically adjusted between a minimum and maximum value such that the system always remains work conserving. We develop a Markov model that allows us to study the impact of such state dependent (dynamic) rate control on the class-wise blocking probabilities and the first two moments of the holding times. We conclude that dynamic (state dependent) rate adjustment decreases the class-wise blocking probabilities and only moderately increases the expectation and the second moment of the time spent in the system.