Scheduling dependent modeling of inter-cell interference in UMTS EUL

Dimitrova, D.C. and Heijenk, G. and Berg van den, J.L. (2009) Scheduling dependent modeling of inter-cell interference in UMTS EUL. In: Third international conference on next generation mobile applications, services and technologies, 16-18 Sep 2009, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

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Abstract:	In this paper we analyze the performance of the UMTS Enhanced Uplink (EUL) in a network scenario, under various packet scheduling schemes. Besides the impact of the intrinsic differences of the scheduling schemes on EUL performance (which we studied in a previous paper for a single cell scenario), we are particularly interested in how the different scheduling schemes influence EUL performance through their impact on the characteristics of the inter-cell interference. For our analysis we use a hybrid analytical/simulation approach, originally developed for the single cell situation, and extend it to our multi cell scenario. We show that the mutual influence between neighbouring cells due to inter-cell interference is largely determined by only one or two power iteration steps, which considerably speeds up computations. Our approach takes into account both the packet-level characteristics and the flow-level dynamics due to the random user behaviour. For the considered schedulers we evaluate and compare performance measures such as the mean flow transfer time and throughput.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2009 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/67871
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NGMAST.2009.24
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