Admission control for streaming services over HSDPA

The paper proposes and evaluates an efficient power and code based admission control algorithm that is capable of fulfilling the QoS demands of the streaming users mapped on the HS-DSCH (high speed downlink shared channel). A mixed traffic scenario, where streaming users have to coexist with speech users mapped on dedicated channels (DCH) and Web browsing users mapped on HS-DSCH, is considered. By means of system level dynamic simulations, it is concluded that our proposed algorithm is able to improve the satisfaction of streaming users with minor impact on the QoS of speech and Web browsing users.