An approach to wireless scheduling considering revenue and users' satisfaction

Recently, several proposals for wireless scheduling algorithms have been presented, using allocation models focused on users’ subjective perception of the service. The goal of these investigations is to design scheduling policies aimed at satisfying more directly the users’ preference. In this paper, we extend this approach, by studying Radio Resource Management, and in particular the scheduler, considering an original model to represent the behavior of multimedia users. We include charging strategies and users’ reaction to prices, so that qualitative and quantitative economic considerations are directly included. After a brief discussion on how to include both perceived quality and pricing, in order to achieve a user-centric evaluation of the QoS, we show how it is possible to schedule users by applying this model so as to obtain a more efficient resource usage, characterized by both larger users’ appreciation and higher revenue for the service provider.