Association Control Based Load Balancing for Tactical Information Communication Networks

—In this paper, we propose a distributed load balancing using association control, especially for Tactical Information Communication Networks (TICNs). We develop a scheme for effectively balancing the load at the Base Stations (BSs), where a BS’s load represents the amount of resources utilized by a BS, thus minimizing the blocking probability as well as the transmission failure probability. In order to make it more suitable to the military environment, we develop the proposed scheme in a completely distributed manner. Extensive simulations are performed and the proposed scheme is found to outperform the association schemes existing in the literature.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: VTC
• Authors: Kiran T. Nath, Dongmyoung Kim, Sunghyun Choi
• Keywords: BS’s Load, Communications, Tactical Information Communication, Transmission Failure Probability, VTC 2010