Evolved UTRA (EUTRA) is currently under standardization within 3GPP as a long-term evolution (LTE) of Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) air interface. Due to the potentially large number of VoIP users served in this system, related control signaling overhead for VoIP transmissions with traditional full dynamic scheduling scheme could become a bottleneck and limit the system capacity to a greater extent. In this paper, we present a semi-persistent packet scheduling scheme for VoIP to explore the capacity within the limitation of control channel resources. System level simulation results show that semi-persistent scheduling scheme can reduce control channel usage without using packet bundling technique. With 6 control channels, around 310 users per sector can be supported in 5 MHz bandwidth with both Discontinuous Reception (DRX) enabled and without packet bundling.
This paper presents a study of packet scheduling enhancements for VoIP service over high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) in WCDMA. Taking VoIP traffic characteristics into account in Node B packet scheduling algorithm is a key element in achieving good performance and high VoIP capacity. The novelty of this study consists of dynamic transmission resource allocation method for VoIP service. Dynamic resource allocation takes the estimated channel conditions and the transmission requirements of a user into account to increase the efficiency of resource utilization. Simulation results produced with a dynamic system simulator indicate 20 % VoIP capacity gain achieved with the proposed enhancement when compared to the conventional even share resource allocation.
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