Design and Implementation of a Distributed System Level Evaluation Platform for Mobile WiMAX

Author

Zhang, Jian ; Zhao, Yu ; Li, Jian ; Zhang, Jian ; Zhang, Xiaodong

Author_Institution

China Acad. of Sci., Shanghai

fYear

2007

fDate

22-24 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

27

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a system level evaluation platform based on the Mobile WiMAX system profile defined by WiMAX Forum. In order to satisfy the large computational requirement of the wireless channel simulation, we propose a distributed implementation method which can effectively reduce the simulation time by parallel computation. Moreover, different interfaces are provided in our platform to enable flexibility and extensibility of embedding various algorithms. Simulation results illustrate that the distributed simulation method reduces the simulation time significantly and the performance of the WiMAX system is reasonable according to the theoretical values.

Keywords

WiMax; mobile computing; wireless channels; distributed system level evaluation platform; mobile WiMAX; parallel computation; wireless channel simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Mobile computing; Physical layer; Power control; Scheduling algorithm; Throughput; WiMAX; Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e); distributed computation; system level simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Networking in China, 2007. CHINACOM '07. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1009-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1009-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469319

Filename

4469319