Stability of flow-level scheduling with Markovian time-varying channels

  • Authors:
  • Jeongsim Kim;Bara Kim;Jerim Kim;Yun Han Bae

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics Education, Chungbuk National University, 52 Naesudong-ro, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk, 361-763, Republic of Korea;Department of Mathematics, Korea University, 145, Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-701, Republic of Korea;Department of Mathematics, Korea University, 145, Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-701, Republic of Korea;Department of Mathematics Education, Sangmyung University, 7, Hongji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-743, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We consider the flow-level scheduling in wireless networks. The time is slotted and in each time slot the base station selects flows/users to serve. There are multi-class users and channel conditions vary over time. The channel state for each class user is assumed to be modeled as a finite state Markov chain. Using the fluid limit approach, we find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of best rate (BR) scheduling policies. As a result, we show that any BR policy is maximally stable. Our result generalizes the result of Ayesta et al. (in press) [13] and solves the conjecture of Jacko (2011) [16]. We introduce a correlated channel state model and investigate the stability condition for BR policy in this model.