Effect of MAC control messaging to WiMAX throughput in practical cases

Author

Ruuska, Pekka ; Piri, Esa ; Prokkola, Jarmo

Author_Institution

VTT Tech. Res. Centre of Finland, Oulu, Finland

fYear

2011

fDate

6-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

639

Lastpage

643

Abstract

Performance of WiMAX has been widely studied still the MAC protocols´ efficiency in various conditions is not fully understood. We evaluated the earlier studies and realized that none of them provided a detailed analysis, which could be used to assess an operational WiMAX system. This paper presents a novel method to calculate theoretical maximum capacity of both Fixed and Mobile WiMAX. MAC protocol´s efficiency is analyzed in different practical cases and it is shown that with a certain bandwidth, modulation and channel coding the MAC uplink overhead is critical to performance along with the number of active subscriber´s stations and length of MAC PDUs.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; channel coding; mobile radio; modulation; MAC PDU; MAC control messaging; MAC protocol efficiency; MAC uplink overhead; WiMax throughput; channel coding; fixed-WiMax; mobile WiMax; modulation; operational WiMax system; subscriber stations; Bandwidth; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; OFDM; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Throughput; WiMAX; Fixed-WiMAX; MAC performance; Mobile-WiMAX; OFDMA (key words); analyzing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2011 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aachen

ISSN

2154-0217

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-403-9

Electronic_ISBN

2154-0217

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWCS.2011.6125432

Filename

6125432