A novel load balancing algorithm for on-board high-speed trains

It is getting more and more attention to provide high quality Internet service for users in high-speed trains. However, most current Internet access schemes can only serve users via one wireless access technique which obviously restricts transmission quality provided to users. Therefore, this paper provides a novel resource scheduling method called as Throughput-Optimize Load Balancing Algorithm (TOBA). Through evaluating the link metrics, this algorithm can schedule the data flows by round-trip-delay and package loss rate. Compared with related works, our proposed algorithm has better performance for users in high-speed trains in the aspect of bandwidth, transmission delay and link utilization efficiency. © 2016, ICIC Express Letters ICIC International.