An Autonomic QoS-centric Architecture for Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

  • Authors:
  • Georgios Aristomenopoulos;Timotheos Kastrinogiannis;Zhaojun Li;Symeon Papavassiliou

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15780;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15780;Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd, London, UK;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15780

  • Venue:
  • Mobile Networks and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper the problem of seamless mobility and proficient joint radio resource management over an all-IP internetworked wireless heterogeneous environment is addressed. Nodes' autonomicity is envisioned as the enabler to devise a Quality of Service (QoS) aware architecture for supporting a variety of services, founded on a common utility based framework that provides enhanced flexibility in reflecting different access networks' type of resources and diverse QoS prerequisites, under a unified QoS-aware resource allocation optimization problem. This allows a more in-depth intrinsic wireless network convergence, beyond All-IP, driven by QoS-oriented resource management. This vision is demonstrated and instantiated for integrated WLAN and cellular (both CDMA and OFDMA) networks, providing a viable path towards the evolution and realization of the future wireless networking paradigm. Initial numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture and reveal the benefits of such a service oriented paradigm against other existing access oriented autonomic designs.