Abstract
The main barrier to the sustained growth of wireless communications is the Shannon limit that applies to the channel capacity. A promising means to realize high-capacity enhancements is the use of multi-path communication solutions to improve reliability and network performance in areas that are covered by a multitude of overlapping wireless access networks. Despite the enormous potential for capacity enhancements offered by multi-path communication techniques, little is known about how to effectively exploit this. Motivated by this, we study a model where jobs are split and downloaded over N multiple parallel networks, each of which is modeled as a processor sharing (PS) queue. Each job is fragmented, according to a fixed splitting rule α= α
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 144-166 |
Journal | Stochastic Models |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |