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Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support
January 2007 (vol. 6 no. 1)
pp. 26-38
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Claudio Cicconetti, Alessandro Erta, Luciano Lenzini, Enzo Mingozzi, "Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 26-38, January, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TMC.2007.12,
author = {Claudio Cicconetti and Alessandro Erta and Luciano Lenzini and Enzo Mingozzi},
title = {Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
volume = {6},
number = {1},
issn = {1536-1233},
year = {2007},
pages = {26-38},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2007.12},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
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KW - IEEE 802.16
KW - broadband wireless access
KW - MAC protocols
KW - quality of service
KW - scheduling algorithms
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The IEEE 802.16 is a standard for broadband wireless communication in Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). To meet the QoS requirements of multimedia applications, the IEEE 802.16 standard provides four different scheduling services: Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS), real-time Polling Service (rtPS), non-real-time Polling Service (nrtPS), and Best Effort (BE). The paper is aimed at verifying, via simulation, the effectiveness of rtPS, nrtPS, and BE (but UGS) in managing traffic generated by data and multimedia sources. Performance is assessed for an IEEE 802.16 wireless system working in Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) mode, with Frequency Division Duplex (FDD), and with full-duplex Subscriber Stations (SSs). Our results show that the performance of the system, in terms of throughput and delay, depends on several factors. These include the frame duration, the mechanisms for requesting uplink bandwidth, and the offered load partitioning, i.e., the way traffic is distributed among SSs, connections within each SS, and traffic sources within each connection. The results also highlight that the rtPS scheduling service is a very robust scheduling service for meeting the delay requirements of multimedia applications.

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Index Terms:
IEEE 802.16, broadband wireless access, MAC protocols, quality of service, scheduling algorithms, performance evaluation.
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Claudio Cicconetti, Alessandro Erta, Luciano Lenzini, Enzo Mingozzi, "Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 26-38, Jan. 2007, doi:10.1109/TMC.2007.12
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