This paper proposes two novel packet scheduling schemes, called as throughput enhanced scheduling (TES) and TES plus (TES+), for future ultra-dense networks. These schemes introduce two novel parameters to the scheduling decision making and reformulate the parameters used by the state-of-the-art schemes. The aim is to have a more balanced weight distribution between delay and throughput-related parameters at scheduling decisions. Also include a new telecommunications related parameter into scheduling decision making that has not been studied by popular schedulers. The performance of novel schemes is compared with well-known schemes-proportional fairness (PF), exponential/proportional fairness (EXP/PF), and M-LWDF. For performance evaluation, five performance metrics-average spectral efficiency and delay, quality of service (QoS) violation ratio, jitter, and Jain's fairness index-are investigated. The simulation results show that proposed schemes can outperform all the compared scheduling schemes.
KEYWORDS5G networks, EXP/PF, M-LWDF, packet scheduling, real-time traffic, ultra-dense networks Int J Commun Syst. 2020;33:e4229.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dac