{"title":"Utility fair RAT selection in multi-homed LTE/802.11 networks","authors":"Bahar Partov, D. Leith","doi":"10.1109/ALLERTON.2015.7447057","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We consider proportional fair rate allocation in a heterogeneous network with a mix of LTE and 802.11 Radio Access Technologies (RATs) which supports multipath and multi-homed operation (simultaneous connection of a user device to multiple LTE BSs and one 802.11 AP). We show that the utility fair optimisation problem is non-convex but that a global optimum can be found by solving a sequence of convex optimisations in a distributed fashion. The result is a principled approach to offload from LTE to 802.11 and for exploiting LTE/802.11 path diversity to meet user traffic demands.","PeriodicalId":112948,"journal":{"name":"2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ALLERTON.2015.7447057","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We consider proportional fair rate allocation in a heterogeneous network with a mix of LTE and 802.11 Radio Access Technologies (RATs) which supports multipath and multi-homed operation (simultaneous connection of a user device to multiple LTE BSs and one 802.11 AP). We show that the utility fair optimisation problem is non-convex but that a global optimum can be found by solving a sequence of convex optimisations in a distributed fashion. The result is a principled approach to offload from LTE to 802.11 and for exploiting LTE/802.11 path diversity to meet user traffic demands.