The System Design and Performance Analysis of WiMAX Base Station MAC Based on Intel Network Processor

Author

Wu, Ming ; Xie, Changsheng ; Wang, Qingdong

Author_Institution

Comput. Sch., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

29-31 July 2007

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

248

Abstract

This paper provides WiMAX BS (base station) MAC system design and performance analysis based on Intel IXP2350, which includes MAC design key issues discussion, base station usage model and architecture, MAC hardware and software high level design with performance analysis. Especially, the WiMAX base station is user-specific, and WiMAX MAC software is one of the most important base station components, so we discuss in details about MAC data plane software design and performance pre-analysis based on IXP2350 micro engines. Current hardware GE forwarding test and data plane software pre-analysis shows that the design scheme can meet system performance requirement.

Keywords

WiMax; microprocessor chips; software engineering; Intel IXP2350; Intel network processor; MAC system design; WiMAX base station MAC; base station usage model; Base stations; Computer architecture; Engines; Hardware; Performance analysis; Software design; Software performance; Software testing; System analysis and design; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking, Architecture, and Storage, 2007. NAS 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2927-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAS.2007.55

Filename

4286434