Minimum-length scheduling for multicast traffic under channel uncertainty

  • Authors:
  • Anna Pantelidou;Anthony Ephremides

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland;Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider a set of multicast sources, each multicasting a finite amount of data to its corresponding destinations. The objective is to minimize the time to deliver all traffic, i.e., to obtain schedules of minimum length. We consider time-varying wireless networks with imperfect side information at the sources. We model the minimum-length scheduling problem through partially observable stochastic shortest paths and provide an optimal solution. Due to the high complexity of computing the optimal solution, we finally provide a set of heuristics and illustrate their performance through numerical experiments.