An emulator framework for a new radio resource management for QoS guaranteed services in W-CDMA systems

In the context of third-generation (3G) systems a mix of services with diff erent requirements are expected. Consequently, packet scheduling mechanisms for quality of service (QoS) guarantees will play a key role. This paper p roposes a new scheduling strategy that makes consistent the target quality in the radio link with the priority level assigned to each user. The perfor mance of such a strategy is assessed by system level simulations and, in or der to gain more insight into the difficulties of this optimization problem , it is compared to other alternatives. This work is part of the Wineglass project, within the Fifth Framework Program of the European Commission (IST ), where a real time demonstrator including the radio resource management t asks is being developed. Thus, an implementation approach of the proposed s cheduling is also described. The implementation is based on lookup tables a nd this approach is validated by simulation.