Title :
Performance Evaluation of Piggyback Requests in IEEE 802.16
Author :
Pries, Rastin ; Staehle, Dirk ; Marsico, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Wurzburg, Wurzburg
Abstract :
WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a wireless access technology that aims to provide last mile wireless broadband access for fixed and mobile users as an alternative to the wired DSL and cable access. It is specified in the IEEE 802.16 standard. The standard defines several possible bandwidth request methods that can be implemented in an actual deployment of a WiMAX network. In this paper, we will study the performance of two different bandwidth request mechanisms, namely piggyback and broadcast requests and will show in which situations piggybacking performs better than the contention based broadcast bandwidth requests.
Keywords :
WiMax; broadband networks; performance evaluation; radio access networks; IEEE 802.16; WiMAX; performance evaluation; piggyback requests; wireless broadband access; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Bandwidth; Base stations; Broadcasting; Computer science; Delay; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Unicast; Usability; WiMAX;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall. 2007 IEEE 66th
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0263-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1090-3038
DOI :
10.1109/VETECF.2007.398
