Radio resource management for quality of service in third generation mobile communications

Third generation mobile communications systems allow multiple mobile users to access and share radio resources. There are two objectives of radio resource management, quality of service for individual users and resource utilization for the system. This paper proposes a mechanism to maximize system throughput while maintaining quality of service for users of wireless data applications. The mechanism uses token bank leaky bucket (TBLB) for QoS provisioning followed by carrier-to-interference (C/I) based radio resource management for optimum system performance. This paper further evaluates the performance of the proposed mechanism with respect to data traffic models and compares it with popular scheduling schemes.