Handoff Management and Admission Control Using Virtual Partitioning With Preemption in 3G Cellular/802.16e Interworking

The integration of third-generation (3G) cellular networks and IEEE 802.16e networks is an important interworking case within the forthcoming fourth-generation heterogeneous wireless networks. In this paper, we extend the virtual partitioning with preemption technique for admission control in cellular/802.16e interworking and evaluate its performance. First, we describe the mobility scenario between 3G cellular networks and IEEE 802.16e networks in terms of the horizontal (intrasystem) and vertical (intersystem) handoffs that can occur and derive the corresponding handoff rate equations. We then propose admission-control algorithms for connection requests that consider the class of service (i.e., real time or nonreal time) and the type of user (i.e., new or handoff). For the handoff requests, a different priority is assigned to each type of handoff. A joint connection- and packet-level optimization approach is used for quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning. The accuracy of the analytical model is validated via simulations. Numerical results show significant performance improvement. The blocking probabilities for new connection requests can be reduced by 70% when the joint QoS optimization approach is used.