Fixed WiMAX Network Research Articles

Improving the Quality of Service of Fixed WiMAX Networks by Decreasing Application Response Time Using a Distributed Model

In the most recent few years, there has been a meteoric rise in the number of different wireless networks, as has the demand for wireless data services and multimedia applications. An improvement in quality of service (QoS) is required in order to meet the ever-increasing demand while also providing a service that is of a higher standard. One of the most cutting-edge technologies, known as World Wide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WIMAX), was developed with the quality of service in mind during its development. Despite utilizing the most recent advancements in technology, the WiMAX network continues to struggle with QoS performance issues. A brand new distributed Client-Server model was designed for the fixed WiMAX Network in order to reduce application response time. This was done in order to improve the quality of service performance. In order to make a comparison with the existing centralized model, the performance of the proposed model was analyzed with OPNET Modeler 16.0. According to the findings, the newly proposed distributed Client-Server system is capable of satisfying the requirements set forth by its users owing to an improvement in QoS performance in terms of application response time when compared to the conventional model. The performance of the network was increased by the deployment of more Base Stations (BSs), Subscriber Stations, and the utilization of client-server Base Stations that were chosen by the Nearest Neighborhood Algorithm that was devised

Performance Impact of Relay Selection in WiMAX IEEE 802.16j Multi-hop Relay Networks

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access network accepts the challenge of last mile wireless access for internet. IEEE 802.16 standard, commercially known as WiMAX provide wireless broadband experience to the end subscribers and challenges many wired solutions like Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and cable internet. Wireless network has many inherent issues like coverage holes; capacity optimization and mobility are few of them. Adding relays to multi-hop WiMAX IEEE 802.16j network present an effective solution to address them to some extent but this amendment does not elaborate any algorithm regarding the relay selection and narrate no performance guarantees. In this work, we proposed linear model that fairly allocates wireless resources among subscribers in 802.16j network. A relay selection algorithm is also presented to optimally select nodes with higher signal-to-noise ratio as relay station for nodes with lower signal-to-noise ratio objectively maximize overall network capacity. This scheme further extends network coverage area and improves network availability. We also did extensive performance evaluation of the proposed linear model. Results show that optimal relays selection scheme do provide a substantial increase of up to 66% in overall network capacity in the fixed WiMAX network. This improvement is substantial at places where network condition is not optimal. Investigating the problem further leads to the conclusion that the relay selection criterion is the key to achieve maximum network capacity.

Optimising capacity–coverage of a fixed WiMAX network

The capacity and coverage area are the two most important design considerations for the planning and optimisation of cellular networks. In this paper, we report on the field measurements of received signal strength (RSS) and available data transfer rate (DTR) at user end in a fixed WiMAX network operating at 2.62 GHz. The coverage area of the network under study covers both rural and urban sectors. Comprehensive measurements of RSS and available DTR are recorded for different settings of the base station antenna tilt and the height of customer premise equipment (CPE) antenna installed at the user premise. It is a directional antenna oriented towards the base station facilitating line of sight communication. It is interesting to observe that base station antenna down-tilt of 2° results in almost 100% fulfilment of the coverage and capacity requirements in rural sector of the network. Up-tilt of 1°, yields 97% fulfilment of the requirements in the entire cell area. These settings of the base station antenna tilt offers encouraging results for the optimisation of both capacity and coverage area and establishes that antenna tilt is an effective optimisation tool to achieve better utilisation of the network resources with enhanced quality of service.

SIMULASI DAN ANALISA SCHEDULING SERVICE CLASS PADA JARINGAN WIMAX MENGGUNAKAN OPNET MODELER

Abstract Human need for information now pushing the demand for internet data access speed high rises rapidly. The service offers diverse include text, sound, video, and data. It has become even daily needs that can not be separated from human life. So the need for technology that can deliver voice, data, and video with better quality. This study discusses the application of scheduling service class on data communications applications in the Fixed WiMAX network. Fixed WiMAX network is simulated using OPNET Modeler. Network design performed using a single BS, SS 16 pieces, and the server as a source of traffic. Data is collected for ten minutes. The simulation results obtained show that the application of sound, UGS service class has the greatest value is 3 Mbps throughput and jitter smallest value that is close to 0 s. In video applications, rtPS service class has the greatest value of throughput is 44 Mbps and has the smallest delay value was 0.17 s. On the application file transfer, nrtPS service class has the greatest value is 6,745,187 bps throughput and has the smallest delay value is 0.014 s. In the web browsing application, nrtPS service class has the greatest value is 8.2 Mbps throughput and has the smallest delay value is 0.022 s.Keywords : fixed WiMAX, scheduling service, Opnet Modeler

An Efficient Approach of Scheduling with Call Admission Control to Fixed WiMAX Networks

The major challenge for the second decade of this century is the implementation of access to high-speed internet, known as broadband internet. Thus, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has developed a new standard for wireless access, called IEEE 802.16. Also known as WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), it is an emerging technology for next generation wireless networks which supports a large number of users, both mobile and nomadic (fixed), distributed across a wide geographic area. Based on these assumptions, and considering that the standard does not specify a scheduling algorithm, a new scheduler with call admission control was proposed based on Latency-Rate (LR) server theory and with system characteristics as specified by the system standard using the WirelessMAN-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) air interface. The proposed scheduler calculates the time frame (TF) in order to maximize the number of stations allocated in the system while managing the delay required for each user. Properties of this proposal have been investigated theoretically and through simulations. The results of simulations show that an upper bound on the delay can be achieved for a large range of network loads, with bandwidth optimization.