An effective cross-layer designed packet scheduling, call admission control, and handover system for video streaming services over LTE network

• We define QoE metrics based on the amount of buffered video frames.
• We propose cross-layer designed PS, CAC, and HO system tightly coupled on QoE state.
• The PS algorithm considers QoE states and wireless link states of UEs.
• The CAC algorithm estimates cell availability at the next call arriving time.
• The HO algorithm attains well-balanced traffic load among cells based on QoE state.

This paper presents an effective cross-layer designed packet scheduling, call admission control, and handover system to provide a seamless video streaming services over LTE network. The proposed packet scheduling algorithm allocates wireless network resources to admitted UEs while considering QoE states and wireless link states of UEs simultaneously. The proposed call admission control algorithm estimates the cell availability at the next call arriving time based on the current QoE states of UEs to determine the admission of a new UE. The proposed handover algorithm determines the appropriate handover trigger timing to keep a balance of the QoE states among immediately adjacent cells based on both the cell availability and wireless link states. Finally, simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. Results indicate that the proposed cross-layer designed system improves the QoE states of all admitted UEs and overall network utilization better than other existing methods.