A unified approach for performance analysis in mobile WiMAX networks with Adaptive Modulation and Coding schemes over Rayleigh fading channels

WiMAX technology is considered one of the most important solutions capable to provide a Broadband Wireless Access in metropolitan areas. Mobility issues have become challenging for the rollout for WiMAX networks in order to compete against the other competitive technologies such as 3.5G and LTE. In this paper, a unified approach to derive the overall BER and data rate for mobile WiMAX (in uplink direction) will be introduced. This approach will take into consideration different operational scenarios such as time varying channels with different values of channel estimation precision values, different number of subcarriers, and different symbol durations. An analytical expression for the effect of ICI power on the bit error probability and effective bit rate will be obtained for BPSK, QPSK, and 16QAM in presence of AMC. This paper also investigates the effect of the use of AMC techniques on the obtained system performance.