Performance of IEEE 802.16 MAC layer protocol under conditions of self-similar traffic

Author

Bhandari, B.N. ; Kumar, Ratnam V Raja ; Maskara, S.L.

Author_Institution

Dept of Electron. & Electr. Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Kharagpur, Kharagpur

fYear

2008

fDate

19-21 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the impact of self-similar traffic pattern on uplink performance of IEEE 802.16 MAC layer protocol for real time polling (RTPS) and best effort (BE) services in terms of throughput, average delay. Our simulation results show that self similar traffic, compared to traditional traffic pattern such as Poisson traffic produce longer delay and larger probability of request collision for BE service flow. Our results provide more insights for providing quality of service (QoS) guarantees to the sources with different QoS requirement as a function of network load.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; IEEE 802.16 MAC layer protocol; QoS requirement; quality-of-service; real time polling scheme; self-similar traffic pattern; Access protocols; Delay effects; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Road accidents; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; 2IRP; 4IPP; BE; BWA; GPC; GPSS; MAC; MMPP; PDU; QoS; Real time polling; contention resolution; self similar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2008 - 2008 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2408-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2409-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766470

Filename

4766470