Resource sharing in integrated voice and data services

In this work, the behavior of resource allocation policies for circuit switched integrated voice and data services is considered. A novel configurable allocation strategy is proposed which anticipates congestion and adjusts to it by gradually reducing the rate allocated to new and handed over data sessions. An elaborate simulation tool was used to evaluate, for two different traffic scenarios, the performance of the new scheme and to compare it to the behavior of existing techniques. One of the measures used in gauging the advantages and disadvantages of each method was a new performance metric, which attempts to properly reflect data customer satisfaction.