Performance analysis of service classes for IEEE 802.16m QoS optimization

Future generation of wireless mobile communication aims to provide high speed Internet access along with support for high mobility to the end users. Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) has been developed in this direction in 2005 which provides broadband wireless Internet access up to 70Mbit/s. Its high speed enables various multimedia applications along with the conventional telephony service. These applications are categorized into classes like Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze according to their priority. In this paper we investigate the behavior of different scheduling algorithms for OFDMA/MIMO based WiMAX (IEEE 802.16m) architecture and analyze the quality of service (QoS) issues like throughput, end to end delay, interference, signal to noise ratio, call blocking probability and call dropping probability. For simulation, we used OPNET Modeler. The simulation results show high values of the QoS parameters although there is lack of consistency in some of those values that calls for further improvement in design, architecture and deployment strategy.