Enhanced Channel Borrowing Call Admission Control Scheme for LTE Networks
Author(s):
Hussaini Lawal | Abdulhakeem Abdulazeez | Aminu Mohammed | Yahaya Hussaini Shagari | Anas Tukur Balarabe
Journal:
International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract
Long Term Evolution (LTE) was developed to support real-time services like multimedia, VoIP, online gaming, etc., with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. To achieve this QoS, mobile users should be accepted into the network with committed bandwidth, considering device mobility and the varying application requirement. Thus, the need for an efficient Radio Resource Management technique such as Call Admission Control (CAC). When a new Handoff Call (HC) arrives, and there are no adequate resources to admit it, the existing scheme, pre-empt the ongoing Non-real time (NRT) new call to free up resources to admit the HC. However, the reclaimed bandwidth from the ongoing call may not be completely required by the incoming call, and this will lead to wastage of resources and consequently causes a decrease in throughput. In this paper, we proposed an Enhanced Channel Borrowing Call Admission Control (ECB-CAC) scheme for LTE network to address the problem in the existing scheme. The proposed scheme introduces a dynamic reserved channel allocation and revoke technique that reclaims the required bandwidth enough to admit the incoming call from the ongoing NRT new call. The proposed scheme was evaluated against the benchmark scheme using simulation experiments. The results show that the performance of the ECB-CAC was significantly better than the benchmark scheme in terms of throughput, Call Dropping Percentage (CDP), and Call Blocking Percentage (CBP).
Keywords:
LTE, radio resource management, call admission control, CAC, QoS, Throughput, CBP, and CDP.