Article ID: | iaor2008530 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 53 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 842 |
End Page Number: | 851 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Ata Bar |
Keywords: | communication, queues: applications, programming: dynamic |
A controller dynamically chooses a state-dependent transmission rate on a static, point-to-point wireless link by varying transmission power over time. The transmitter is modeled as a finite-buffer Markovian queue with adjustable service rates. That is, data packets arrive to the system according to a Poisson process, and packet size is exponentially distributed. The controller chooses a transmission rate from a fixed set A of available values, depending on the backlog in the system. The objective is to minimize long-run average energy consumption subject to a quality-of-service constraint, which is expressed as an upper bound on the packet drop rate. An explicit formula is developed for the optimal transmission rate as a function of the packet queue length.