A Dynamic TCP-Aware Call Admission Control Scheme for Generic Next Generation Packet-Switched Wireless Networks

Traditional call admission control (CAC) schemes only consider call-level performance and are mainly designed for circuit-switched wireless network. Since future wireless communications will become packet-switched systems, the packet-level features could be explored to improve the system performance. This is especially true when the TCP-type of elastic applications are running over such packet-switched wireless networks, as the elasticity of TCP applications has more tolerance toward the throughput/delay variation than non-elastic traffic does. In order to efficiently utilize the system resource from an admission control perspective, we propose a TCP-aware CAC scheme to regulate the packet-level dynamics of TCP flows. We analyze the system performance under realistic scenarios in which (i) the call holding time for non-elastic traffic like voice is independent of system states and (ii) the call holding time for TCP type of traffic depends on the system state, i.e., on the TCP flow´s transmission rate. Extensive simulations are presented under different scenarios to show that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the system performance in terms of call blocking probability, call-level throughput (call/min) and link utilization, in accordance with our theoretical results.