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TY - GEN
T1 - Tie-breaking can maximize fairness without sacrificing throughput in D2D-assisted networks
AU - Mancuso, Vincenzo
AU - Asadi, Arash
AU - Jacko, Peter
PY - 2016/7/26
Y1 - 2016/7/26
N2 - Opportunistic schedulers such as MaxRate and Proportional Fair are known for trading off between throughput and fairness of users in cellular networks. In this paper, we propose a novel solution that integrates opportunistic scheduling design principles and cooperative D2D communication capabilities in order to maximize fairness without sacrificing throughput. Specifically, we develop a mathematical approach and design a smart tie-breaking scheme which maximizes the fairness achieved by the MaxRate scheduler. However, our approach could be applied to improve fairness of any scheduler. In addition, we show that users that cooperatively form D2D clusters benefit from both higher throughput and fairness. Our scheduling scheme is simple to implement, scales linearly with the number of clusters, and is able to double the throughput of Equal Time schedulers and to outperform by 20% or more Proportional Fair schedulers, while providing a user fairness index comparable to or better than Proportional Fair.
AB - Opportunistic schedulers such as MaxRate and Proportional Fair are known for trading off between throughput and fairness of users in cellular networks. In this paper, we propose a novel solution that integrates opportunistic scheduling design principles and cooperative D2D communication capabilities in order to maximize fairness without sacrificing throughput. Specifically, we develop a mathematical approach and design a smart tie-breaking scheme which maximizes the fairness achieved by the MaxRate scheduler. However, our approach could be applied to improve fairness of any scheduler. In addition, we show that users that cooperatively form D2D clusters benefit from both higher throughput and fairness. Our scheduling scheme is simple to implement, scales linearly with the number of clusters, and is able to double the throughput of Equal Time schedulers and to outperform by 20% or more Proportional Fair schedulers, while providing a user fairness index comparable to or better than Proportional Fair.
KW - Cellular networks
KW - D2D communications
KW - Opportunistic scheduling
KW - Tie-breaking
U2 - 10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523498
DO - 10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523498
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84983792808
BT - WoWMoM 2016 - 17th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2016
Y2 - 21 June 2016 through 24 June 2016
ER -