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Resource Allocation to Support QoE in Hierarchical Macrocell-Femtocell Networks

계층화된 매크로-펨토셀 망에서 QoE를 지원하기 위한 자원할당 방법

  • Lee, Gi-Sung (Div. of Computer and Game, Howon University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Chan (School of Computer Information and Communication Engineering, Kunsan National University)
  • 이기성 (호원대학교 컴퓨터.게임학부) ;
  • 이종찬 (군산대학교 컴퓨터정보통신공학부)
  • Received : 2016.11.03
  • Accepted : 2016.12.08
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

Quality of experience (QoE) for multimedia services in macro-femtocell networks is one of the key issues for 5G mobile and wireless communications. A service management structure needs to guarantee the QoE for mobile users based on end-to-end negotiation to support service continuity. Resource management is necessary to maintain the QoE requirements of different multimedia applications, because service continuity may be impeded by delays. This paper proposes four types of resource management scheme to support consistent QoE for different multimedia services. For this purpose, a QoE structure is suggested, and a resource allocation scheme is proposed by utilizing a fixed amount of radio resources reserved for dedicated use to support QoE. Various multimedia services with different requirements (such as voice, image, and data) can be serviced simultaneously, because QoE can be provided under our proposed scheme. Simulation results show that our scheme provides better performance than a conventional scheme with respect to outage probability and total data throughput.

매크로-펨토셀이 중첩된 환경에서 멀티미디어 서비스의 QoE를 보장하는 것은 5G 이동통신을 위한 중요한 문제이다. 이동 단말기가 이동 시 서비스 연속성을 지원하기 위해서는 종단 간 협상 정보에 근거하여 사용자의 QoE를 보장할 수 있는 운영 구조가 필요하다. 또한 멀티미디어 서비스의 연속성은 지연에 영향 받기 때문에 QoE 요구 사항을 효과적으로 유지하기 위한 자원 관리 방법이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 서로 다른 특성을 갖는 멀티미디어 서비스의 QoE를 지원하기 위하여 4 부류의 자원 관리 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 QoE 구조가 제안되고 QoE를 지원하기 위하여 전용으로 자원을 운용하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 통하여 음성, 영상, 데이터 서비스 등 자원할당 요구 사항이 서로 다른 멀티미디어 서비스의 QoE을 지원할 수 있다. Outage 확률과 데이터 처리율을 성능척도로 하여 수행된 시뮬레이션을 수행하고 결과를 분석한다. Outage 확률과 데이터 처리량을 성능척도로 하여 수행된 시뮬레이션 결과에 의하면 제안된 방안이 기존 방안에 비하여 더 우수한 성능을 가짐이 확인된다.

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