Title :
Advanced power calibration for random access in the IEEE 802.16 system
Author :
Nie, Xuan ; Wu, Chengfu ; Chen, Huaimin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Software Eng., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xian, China
Abstract :
Random access channel is incorporated in IEEE 802.16 WiMAX system to transport contention-based messages in the uplink, such as bandwidth requests generated by best effort applications, from mobile stations (MSs) to the base station(BS). Regarding the packet transmissions in the random access channel, delay, throughput and power consumption are usually considered as major performance metrics. We propose an enhanced power calibration protocol to optimize the system performance in terms of channel access delay, system throughput and MS transmit power consumption. Optimal selection of power levels is formulated in order to maximize the achievable throughput while being subject to power consumption constraint of mobile stations. Our scheme can substitute the random backoff mechanism in the current the WiMAX uplink random access channel, as it can accomplish a significantly improved access delay performance without an increment of design complexity. Simulations are conducted to validate our protocol and confirm its performance superiority as compared to the random channel access method used in the current WiMAX.
Keywords :
WiMax; power consumption; protocols; wireless channels; IEEE 802.16 WiMAX system; MS transmit power consumption; WiMAX uplink random access channel; advanced power calibration protocol; base station; channel access delay; contention based messages; mobile stations; packet transmissions; random backoff mechanism; random channel access method; system throughput; Bandwidth; Base stations; Calibration; Delay; Energy consumption; GSM; Resource management; Throughput; WiMAX; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Application of Information and Communication Technologies, 2009. AICT 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baku
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4739-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4740-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICAICT.2009.5372617