Conference and workshop papers

Multiuser Service Differentiated Spectrum Allocation Scheme for High Rate UWB Systems

Ayman Khalil, Matthieu Crussière and Jean-François Hélard

Sydney, Australia

18 - 21. April 2010

IEEE WCNC 2010 - Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

In this paper, we propose a multiuser spectrum allocation scheme for high-rate UWB systems under QoS requirements. This scheme comes as a solution to the coexistence of multiple users sharing the three sub-bands of the same channel
as defined in the WiMedia solution adopted for multiband UWB systems. Indeed, WiMedia solution does not allow more than three users to coexist in the same channel. Based on a constrained multiuser optimization problem, the proposed allocation algorithm allows multiple users to access the medium following a mixed sub-band assignment and priority-based scheduling approach in order to ensure an efficient differentiated spectrum sharing. The resulting time-frequency scheduling algorithm relies on the combination of two main metrics available at PHY and MAC levels: the channel quality of each user provided by the exploitation of the effective SINR method, and the QoS constraint represented by a simple weighting parameter that differentiates between two service classes. Simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed scheme and how it guarantees a good performance level for users having strict QoS requirements.