Resource allocation in OFDMA wireless communications systems supporting multimedia services
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
LTE, The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice
LTE, The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Towards an efficient reservation algorithm for distributed reservation protocols
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
An open source product-oriented LTE network simulator based on ns-3
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
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In future 4G communication networks, it is expected that most of the bandwidth will be used to serve multimedia applications. Thus, there is a need for scheduling mechanisms, which can manage various types of multimedia communication (interactive, conversation, video streaming, etc.) and provide adequate Quality of Experience according to the application needs. The most promising candidate for 4G systems, i.e., Long Term Evolution, also integrates femtocells as a cost-effective solution for pervasive communication. In such a scenario, the implementation of effective scheduling mechanisms becomes even more important. Finally, before implementing scheduling policies on real devices, validation through simulation studies is often employed. For all these reasons, we investigated the implementation of an adaptive scheduling mechanism for an LTE scenario with femtocells within the well known ns3 simulator. This paper describes the preliminary steps of this activity.