A Bandwidth Scheduling Architecture for the MAC Protocol of IEEE802.16 BWA System

Author

Peng, Hong ; Hua, Yun

Author_Institution

Zhejiang Provincial Opt. Commun. Key Lab., Zhejiang Univ. of Technol., Hangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The service flows in the wireless metropolitan area networks (MAN) can be classified into the UGS, rtPS, nrtPS, and BE types by IEEE 802.16 standards. Although the protocols have been proposed to support QoS (quality of service) guarantees for various kinds of applications, they do not suggest how to schedule traffic to fulfill QoS requirement. In this paper, an efficient bandwidth scheduling architecture for the MAC protocol of IEEE802.16 BWA system was presented. Based on the analysis of the scheduling algorithm of the different services, a classified integrated scheduling algorithm was proposed to schedule different service flow, which is able to classify the service flows and schedule adaptively. The simulation results indicate the correctness and the effectiveness of this algorithm.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; bandwidth allocation; quality of service; scheduling; BE types; IEEE802.16 BWA system; MAC protocol; UGS; bandwidth scheduling architecture; classified integrated scheduling algorithm; nrtPS; quality of service; wireless metropolitan area networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Base stations; Channel allocation; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber communication; Physical layer; Quality of service; Resource management; Scheduling algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.745

Filename

4678653