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Maximal flow-level stability of best-rate schedulers in heterogeneous wireless systems

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  • P. Jacko
  • E. Morozov
  • L. Potakhina
  • I. M. Verloop
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Article numbere2930
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>01/2017
<mark>Journal</mark>Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
Issue number1
Volume28
Number of pages15
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date12/03/15
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We investigate flow-level stability of schedulers in parallel-service wireless systems, which is important for maximizing the base station's capacity to serve the heterogeneous flows that are within the base station's power range. We model such a system as a multi-class queueing system with multiple preemptive servers, in which flows of different classes randomly arrive and depart once their flow is completed. The channel condition of a flow varies randomly over time because of fading and mobility. The evolution of the channel condition is assumed to be Markovian and class dependent. We focus on a general family of the best-rate schedulers that, whenever possible, serve flows that are in the channel condition corresponding to the highest achievable class-dependent transmission rate (i.e. the best rate). We prove under mild assumptions that any best-rate scheduler achieves maximal stability, that is, stabilizes the system whenever possible, in all systems with generally distributed class-dependent arrivals and flow sizes.