QoE-Oriented Resource Allocation Design Coping with Time-Varying Demands in Wireless Communication Networks

Efficiently utilizing the network resources to minimize the operation costs while satisfying customer’s Quality-of-Experience (QoE) related requirement as well as dynamic demands is a challenging task of all network operators. This paper aims to develop a stationary capacity allocation method that anticipates time-varying demand and keeps the network operating under constraints on a stochastic blocking probability. Queuing delay requirement is also regarded as an QoE-oriented practical design. Employing an approximation of time-varying queuing model and continuous time Markov chain (CTMC) for queue length, the technical designs are stated as a convex stochastic optimization based on which a dynamic capacity allocation is proposed by using Lagrangian and gradient descent searching method. Numerical studies confirm that our proposed framework can efficiently and dynamically allocate optimal capacity for a blocking probability of less than 1% and the probability of violating the queuing-delay requirement is less than 5%.