Statistical Connection Admission Control for Mobile WiMAX Systems

In this paper, we propose a new connection admission control (CAC) algorithm accommodating various classes of traffic, which can easily be implemented in mobile WiMAX system. The proposed CAC algorithm has three characteristics: first, the variation of air capacity is taken into account by measuring the distribution of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) levels offline; second, we estimate the mean and variance of frame occupancy ratio of each QoS flow based on declared traffic descriptors; and third, the admission region is determined to satisfy the target overflow probability in the bufferless model. Through numerical analysis, we show that the accuracy of the proposed CAC is satisfactory.