Title :
Scheduling with rate adaptation under incomplete knowledge of channel/estimator statistics
Author :
Ouyang, Wenzhuo ; Murugesan, Sugumar ; Eryilmaz, Atilla ; Shroff, Ness B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
fDate :
Sept. 29 2010-Oct. 1 2010
Abstract :
In time-varying wireless networks, the states of the communication channels are subject to random variations, and hence need to be estimated for efficient rate adaptation and scheduling. The estimation mechanism possesses inaccuracies that need to be tackled in a probabilistic framework. In this work, we study scheduling with rate adaptation in single-hop queueing networks under two levels of channel uncertainty: when the channel estimates are inaccurate but complete knowledge of the channel/estimator joint statistics is available at the scheduler; and when the knowledge of the joint statistics is incomplete. In the former case, we characterize the network stability region and show that a maximum-weight type scheduling policy is throughput-optimal. In the latter case, we propose a joint channel statistics learning - scheduling policy. With an associated trade-off in average packet delay and convergence time, the proposed policy has a stability region arbitrarily close to the stability region of the network under full knowledge of channel/estimator joint statistics.
Keywords :
channel estimation; queueing theory; scheduling; time-varying channels; wireless channels; channel statistics learning; channel uncertainty; channel/estimator statistics; communication channels; convergence time; estimation mechanism; incomplete knowledge; network stability; packet delay; probabilistic framework; random variations; rate adaptation; scheduling; single-hop queueing networks; time-varying wireless networks; Base stations; Channel estimation; Convergence; Joints; Knowledge engineering; Probability; Stability criteria;
Conference_Titel :
Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2010 48th Annual Allerton Conference on
Conference_Location :
Allerton, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8215-3
DOI :
10.1109/ALLERTON.2010.5706971