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International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (2.7) (2018) 69-76
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Research Paper
Suboptimal resource allocation scheme for scalable video
multicast in integrated mobile WiMAX/WLANs network
Wankhede Vishal A.
1*
, Anant R. More
2
, M.S.G. Prasad
3
1
Professor, E & TC, SNJBs K.B. Jain CoE, Chandwad , Nashik, India & Research Supervisor, KL University, A.P. India
2
Ph.D. Scholar, K.L. University, A.P. India
3
Professor, ECE, KKR Institute of Technology & Sciences, Guntur, India & Research Supervisor, KL University, A.P. India
*Email: Wankhedeva@gmail.com
Abstract
The goal of Resource Allocation Scheme (RAS) is to accomplish maximum usage of resources, assures Quality of Service (QoS), exploit
throughput and diminish power consumption with viable algorithm complexity and scalability of system. RA algorithm for dynamic
RAS in downlink Mobile WiMAX is to maximize the minimum rate of user while satisfying power constraint. This study emphasizes on
scalable video transmission in Downlink Mobile WiMax BS with 5 WLAN’s each comprised of 10 users with different QoS
requirements. Convex optimization techniques in scheduling algorithms marginally improve the performance measure as compared to
traditional iterative non-linear methods. This study proposes Active-Set optimization technique for power allocation (PA) amongst sub-
carrier per Subscriber Station (SS) and Greedy Weighted Algorithm (GWA) for sub-carrier allocation. Finally simulation results show
that the proposed GWA and Active-Set optimization technique can effectively achieve maximum network throughput and number of
satisfied users.
Keywords: Active-Set optimization, Greedy Weighted Algorithm, Mobile WiMAX, multicast, resource allocation, scalable video coding (SVC).
1. Introduction
WiMAX can provide data rates of 75Mbps, 350Mbps for
single and multiple channels respectively [6] [7].
Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm have been designed for
efficient utilization of scares radio resources [1], [2], [3],
[10], [14] in order to meet the large scale wireless network by
sharing radio resources among multiple users. The load of
resource obligation is placed on the base station to achieve
effective spectrum utilization [1].
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
has potential to reduce transmit power and flexible multiple
access technique that can accommodate many users with QoS
requirements with variation in data rates [1], [11], [12], [13].
Subcarriers and PA to subscriber in mobile WiMAX system
has been area of active research [26], [27]. WiMAX network
was proposed to meet the demands of both WiMAX service
providers and subscribers [3], [9], [15], [24] in downlink
resource management frame of multi-user. RAS is crucial in
handling heterogeneous traffic load in a WiMAX network
[8], [26], [27]. Despite of standard physical layer
specification for IEEE 802.16e air interface remains open
issue. Hence this open issue motivated us to design and
propose novel downlink resource management framework for
integrated mobile WiMAX and WLAN for efficient
allocation of two key resources
i) Determination of aggregated downlink data
rate if each subscribers within WLAN with
optimized radio power and
ii) Accessing bandwidth assigned on different
subscribers local network application.
Researchers have presented numerous RAS proposed in [10],
[12], [13], [15], [16], [17], [19], [20], [24], [26] for data
unicast in IEEE 802.16e networks. These algorithms allocate
resource with different performance objective like low
complexity [15], [17], [26] through put maximization [15],
[26], [27] and number of satisfied users [27].
This study makes thorough investigation by designing a
novel subcarrier allocation algorithm to provide a solution for
subcarrier allocation and PA problem of data like video
multicast in integrated IEEE 802.16/WLAN network. The
proposed algorithm targets to maximize channel capacity,
maximize data rate for each subscriber, maximize network
through put, and maximize number of satisfied users under
the constraint of bandwidth. Maximization problems of
network performance are Non deterministic Polynomial (NP)
hard [16], [17], [19], [27]. The projected algorithms decipher
NP hard problems using Active Set algorithm which is
convex to find sub- optimal solutions in polynomial time. In
proposed algorithm an Active Set method. This approach
reduces the computational complexity as it is achieved using
approaches used in [15], [16], [17], [20], [28], [29], [30],
[31].
This paper proposed following main contributions:
1. Propose GWA for sub-carrier allocation amongst
various Subscriber Stations (SS).
2. Propose Active-Set optimization for RAS to
maximize data rate of individual subscriber and at
the end network throughput for PHY layer
specifically.
3. Integrate proposed algorithm for WiMAX/WLAN
network as system model.