Downlink slot allocation strategies for a wireless IP network

The paper introduces an advanced slot allocation strategy for the downlink of a packet based mobile communications system. We show that careful consideration of a number of aspects unique to the system downlink greatly improves the multiplexing and resource allocation performance of the communications system, especially when compared to previous multiple access and resource allocation techniques that tend to ignore the downlink aspect of the system. An OPNET simulation model is used to analyse the performance of the proposed algorithms.