Design of Simulation Platform for IEEE 802.16 MAC Protocol

Author

Han, Zongyou ; Li, Xu

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Rail Traffic Control & Safety, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

719

Lastpage

722

Abstract

Targeting at providing wireless broadband access in metropolitan area networks, the IEEE 802.16 standard group has established a sub-group to study new protocol. Wireless mesh network (WMN) becomes the research hotspot in communication areas as it can be used to solve "the last mile" problem. To test the performance of IEEE 802.16 MAC protocol, the self-design simulation platform is proposed. In the article, backbone for simulation platform is designed in detail. The simulation platform supports operation and systematic simulation of MAC protocol that developed in actual project. Through combining theoretical study with practical development, the simulation platform can reduce workload from theoretical study to final realization. Using the simulation platform, the MAC layer program can be debugged, comprehensive performance can be evaluated. The study method of designing simulation platform can provide new ideas for protocol study.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; broadband networks; program debugging; wireless mesh networks; IEEE 802.16 MAC protocol; MAC layer program; WMN; metropolitan area networks; self-design simulation platform; systematic simulation; the last mile problem; wireless broadband access; wireless mesh network; Data models; Digital signal processing; Hardware; IEEE 802.16 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.16; MAC; simulation; wireless mesh network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Control and Electronics Engineering (ICICEE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1450-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICEE.2012.193

Filename

6322482