A QoS-aware protocol architecture for WiMAX

Author

Delicado, Jesus ; Orozco-Barbosa, Luis ; Delicado, Francisco ; Cuenca, Pedro

Author_Institution

Inst. de Investigation en Informdtica de Albacete, Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete

fYear

2006

fDate

38838

Firstpage

1779

Lastpage

1782

Abstract

The IEEE 802.16 standard, called WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), defines the basics of the mechanisms enabling the QoS (quality of service) provisioning in multiservice BWA-based networks. However, the standard does not define the specifics of such mechanisms. In recent years, several studies have undertaken the analysis of some mechanisms. Most of them, they only focus on a given element of the overall QoS framework. In this paper, after reviewing some of the most relevant studies in this area, we introduce an overall QoS framework, fully compatible with the IEEE 802.16 standard. We describe and motivate each and every element of the proposed framework

Keywords

IEEE standards; WiMax; broadband networks; protocols; quality of service; radio access networks; IEEE 802.16 standard; QoS-aware protocol architecture; WiMax; microwave access; multiservice BWA-based networks; quality of service; worldwide interoperability; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Downlink; Frequency division multiplexing; Protocols; Quality of service; Scheduling algorithm; Time division multiple access; Time division multiplexing; WiMAX; BWA; IEEE 802.16; QoS; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. CCECE '06. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0038-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0038-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2006.277817

Filename

4054746