Performance of the IEEE 802.16 MAC Protocol with Varying Request Backoff Start

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2006

fDate

14-17 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A reservation based medium access control (MAC) protocol has been adopted by the IEEE 802.16 standard as the basic protocol for data communication within the upstream channel. This standard adopts the binary exponential backoff algorithm with adjustable window size to resolve the collisions of request packets. This paper investigates the uplink access performance in terms of average throughput, average delay and collision probability for fixed number of contention slots, data slots and MAP size. The performance studies are made as a function of request backoff start (RBS)

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; data communication; packet radio networks; probability; IEEE 802.16 standard; MAC; RBS; binary exponential backoff algorithm; data communication; packet collision; probability; reservation based medium access control protocol; uplink access; upstream channel; varying request backoff start; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Base stations; Data engineering; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Road accidents; Throughput; Time division multiple access; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2006. 2006 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0548-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0549-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2006.344141

Filename

4142610