Application-based scheduling for indoor femtocell networks

Abstract

This thesis is concerned with designing a QoS-enabled, application-based scheduler for indoor femtocell networks. For this purpose, a novel scheduler is proposed which takes into account the quality of service (QoS) requirements of each active application as well as whether their sustainability is at risk at a given time. The scheduler aims to maintain an efficient use of the wireless radio resources and strives to achieve a user and application specific notion of fairness of service reception. Unlike current so- lutions, the scheduler differentiates between not only different users but also between applications of each user, and schedules data transmission amongst these applications so that QoS requirements for all applications are satisfied.