• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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Bandwidth Management of WiMAX Systems and Performance Modeling


Abstract

WiMAX has been introduced as a competitive alternative for metropolitan broadband wireless access technologies. It is connection oriented and it can provide very high data rates, large service coverage, and flexible quality of services (QoS). Due to the large number of connections and flexible QoS supported by WiMAX, the uplink access in WiMAX networks is very challenging since the medium access control (MAC) protocol must efficiently manage the bandwidth and related channel allocations. In this paper, we propose and investigate a cost-effective WiMAX bandwidth management scheme, named the WiMAX partial sharing scheme (WPSS), in order to provide good QoS while achieving better bandwidth utilization and network throughput. The proposed bandwidth management scheme is compared with a simple but inefficient scheme, named the WiMAX complete sharing scheme (WCPS). A maximum entropy (ME) based analytical model (MEAM) is proposed for the performance evaluation of the two bandwidth management schemes. The reason for using MEAM for the performance evaluation is that MEAM can efficiently model a large-scale system in which the number of stations or connections is generally very high, while the traditional simulation and analytical (e.g., Markov models) approaches cannot perform well due to the high computation complexity. We model the bandwidth management scheme as a queuing network model (QNM) that consists of interacting multiclass queues for different service classes. Closed form expressions for the state and blocking probability distributions are derived for those schemes. Simulation results verify the MEAM numerical results and show that WPSS can significantly improve the network’s performance compared to WCPS.


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Cite this article

[IEEE Style]
Y. Li, J. He, W. Xing, "Bandwidth Management of WiMAX Systems and Performance Modeling," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 63-81, 2008. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2008.02.001.

[ACM Style]
Yue Li, Jianhua He, and Weixi Xing. 2008. Bandwidth Management of WiMAX Systems and Performance Modeling. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2, 2, (2008), 63-81. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2008.02.001.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:19785, title="Bandwidth Management of WiMAX Systems and Performance Modeling", author="Yue Li and Jianhua He and Weixi Xing and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2008.02.001}, volume={2}, number={2}, year="2008", month={April}, pages={63-81}}