The Design and Implementation of WiMAX Base Station MAC Based on Intel Network Processor

Author

Wu, Ming ; Fei Wu ; Xie, Changsheng

Author_Institution

Nat. Storage Syst. Lab., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

29-31 July 2008

Firstpage

350

Lastpage

354

Abstract

The paper provides WiMAX BS (base station) MAC design, implementation discussion with performance analysis based on Intel IXP2350, which include MAC design key issues discussion, base station usage model and architecture, MAC hardware and software high level design and relevant performance analysis. Especially, the WiMAX base station is user-specific, and WiMAX MAC software is one of the most important base station components, so we discuss in details about MAC data plane software design and performance pre-analysis based on IXP2350 micro engines. Current hardware GE forwarding test and data plane software pre-analysis shows that the design scheme can meet WiMAX base station system performance requirement.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; microprocessor chips; Intel IXP2350; Intel network processor; MAC hardware; MAC software; WiMAX base station system; Base stations; Computer architecture; Engines; Hardware; Performance analysis; Software design; Software performance; Software testing; System testing; WiMAX; 802.16; Base station; MAC; Network Processor; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Software and Systems Symposia, 2008. ICESS Symposia '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sichuan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3288-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICESS.Symposia.2008.46

Filename

4627185