Analysis of Co-existence between IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 Systems

Author

Thomas, Nicholas J. ; Willis, Mike J. ; Craig, Ken H.

Author_Institution

Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

28-28 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

615

Lastpage

620

Abstract

Both IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 standards have become widespread throughout the world in license-exempt spectrum specifically in the 5 GHz band. However there is a problem in that the two standards are not designed to co-exist in close proximity together on the same or overlapping channels. In this paper an initial analysis of the performance degradation for co-existing IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 systems is presented. Analysis is carried out at the medium access control (MAC) layer by means of an event model based simulation tool. The results show that in co-existence scenarios the performance of both systems will degrade severely and as a result spectrum efficiency can drop to close to zero

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; wireless LAN; wireless channels; 5 GHz; IEEE 802.11 systems; IEEE 802.16 systems; MAC layer; event model based simulation tool; medium access control; overlapping channels; performance degradation; spectrum efficiency; Access protocols; Data communication; Decoding; Degradation; Interference; Laboratories; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2006. SECON '06. 2006 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society on

Conference_Location

Reston, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0626-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAHCN.2006.288520

Filename

4068321