In a cellular network, how to preserve users’ quality of service (QoS) demands is an important issue. To provide better data services, researchers and industry have discussed the deployment of small cells in cellular networks to support dual connectivity enhancement for user equipments (UEs). By such an enhancement, a base station can dispatch downlink data to its surrounding small cells, and UEs that are located in the overlapping areas of the base station and small cells can receive downlink data from both sides simultaneously. We observe that previous works do not jointly consider QoS requirements and system capabilities when making scheduling decisions. Therefore, in this work, we design a QoS traffic scheduling scheme for dual connectivity networks. The designed scheme contains two parts. First, we propose a data dispatching decision scheme for the base station to decide how much data should be dispatched to small cells. When making a dispatching decision, the proposed scheme aims to maximize throughput and ensure that data flows can be processed in time. Second, we design a radio resource scheduling method, which aims to reduce dropping ratios of high-priority QoS data flows, while avoiding wasting radio resources. In this work, we verify our design using simulation programs. The experimental results show that compared to the existing methods, the proposed scheme can effectively increase system throughput and decrease packet drop ratios.
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