IEEE 802.16和WiMax的组网技术

如何提高网络资源利用率和网络传输效率是无线通信领域面临的难题。作为宽带无线接入系统的标准，IEEE802，16在物理层采用正交频分复用技术和灵活的编码调制方式采提高传输速度和性能；在MAC层采用预约与竞争相结合的调度机制，以连接、服务流等与服务质量（QoS）相关的概念为基础。在入网与初始化、帧结构设计上优化设计，提高网络吞吐量，降低网络时延，使网络配置更加灵活。WiMAX基于IEEE802．16技术标准。采用点对多点（PMP）方式实现灵活组网，是宽带无线接入系统的典型血用技术。     

IEEE 802.16标准关键技术和WiMAX的组网应用

WiMAX基于IEEE802.16技术标准,采用点对多点（PMP）方式实现灵活组网,是宽带无线接入系统的典型应用技术。     

IEEE802.16和WiMAX

无线城域网技术是继无线局域网之后出现的又一项宽带无线接入技术。就无线城域网技术为何会紧跟无线局域网技术之后出现，802．16标准的基本内容，以及WiMAX论坛的使命等问题展开深入讨论。首先详细介绍了IEEE802．16标准的由来、应用范围、物理层特点以及MAC层特点等，然后从覆盖、可扩展性和QoS三个方面与802．11标准做了比较。在对WiMAX论坛进行了详尽的介绍后，从多个角度分析了802．16标准的应用前景。     

Channel-Aware Scheduling for QoS and Fairness Provisioning in IEEE 802.16/WiMAX Broadband Wireless Access Systems

In the last few years, standardization activities within the IEEE 802.16 Working Group have resulted in the publication of specifications for an air interface of Fixed broadband wireless access systems. WiMAX is the commercial name of products compliant with the approved IEEE 802.16 standard. Although the standard suggests the main principles in designing a QoS architecture to support multimedia broadband services, implementation details are left to manufacturers. This article addresses a channel-aware scheduling algorithm conceived for a point-to-multipoint WiMAX architecture. It aims at enabling downlink traffic delivery with differentiated service treatment, even in nonideal channel conditions. A technique to compensate for channel errors is proposed to preserve QoS and fairness of a WF2Q+ based scheduling algorithm. The performance behavior of the proposed algorithm is confirmed by the outputs of a comprehensive simulation campaign.     

FEBA: A Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Service Differentiation in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks

In wireless mesh networks, the end-to-end throughput of traffic flows depends on the path length, i.e., the higher the number of hops, the lower becomes the throughput. In this paper, a fair end-to-end bandwidth allocation (FEBA) algorithm is introduced to solve this problem. FEBA is implemented at the medium access control (MAC) layer of single-radio, multiple channels IEEE 802.16 mesh nodes, operated in a distributed coordinated scheduling mode. FEBA negotiates bandwidth among neighbors to assign a fair share proportional to a specified weight to each end-to-end traffic flow. This way traffic flows are served in a differentiated manner, with higher priority traffic flows being allocated more bandwidth on the average than the lower priority traffic flows. In fact, a node requests/grants bandwidth from/to its neighbors in a round-robin fashion where the amount of service depends on both the load on its different links and the priority of currently active traffic flows. If multiple channels are available, they are all shared evenly in order to increase the network capacity due to frequency reuse. The performance of FEBA is evaluated by extensive simulations. It is shown that wireless resources are shared fairly among best-effort traffic flows, while multimedia streams are provided with a differentiated service that enables quality of service.     

IEEE 802.16标准和WiMAX组网技术分析

本文详细介绍了IEEE 802.16各种协议标准,比较了各种WiMAX的物理层技术,分析了WiMAX、Wi-Fi和蜂窝系统的各种优劣,重点阐述了WiMAX的组网方案,根据尽量对目前正使用网络兼容和补充的原则,提出了WiMAX组网分3阶段进行的策略,并且给出了每阶段的详细组网方案.     

基于IEEE 802.16d的WiMAX安全研究

安全是WiMAX中非常重要的技术之一,本文分析了基于802.16d的安全体系结构、主要协议,并分析了802.16d安全的不足和802.16e对其的改进.     

Sleep mode operation for IEEE 802.16e UGS based WiMAX

To solve the problem of energy efficiency drop in wireless metropolitan area network communication due to frequently sleep-awake transitions, the energy-saving mechanism of the sleep mode operation was researched in WMAN. In this paper we propose a dynamic algorithm to tune the ratio of the sleep windows and receive windows according to the real time load. Then, a Markov chain model was set up to analyze the energy efficiency and mean access delay. NS2 simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve marked gain in energy efficiency compared to the traditional energy saving mechanism.     

基于IEEE802.16e的WiMAX移动性管理

IEEE802.16e标准在继承802.16d固定宽带无线接入技术优点的基础上,增加了对移动性的支持。文中介绍了802.16e标准的协议模型,给出了以802.16e为基础的宽带无线城域网技术WiMAX的网络架构;主要针对802.16e的移动性管理进行了探讨,重点讨论了ASN内切换和ASN间切换的过程。     

Adaptive scheduling mechanism for IPTV over WiMAX IEEE 802.16j networks

A WiMAX technology is a very promising Broadband Wireless Access technology that is able to transmit different service types. This latter can have different constraints such as traffic rate, maximum latency, and tolerated jitter. The IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control specifies five types of QoS classes: UGS, rtPS, ertPS, nrtPS, and BE. However, the IEEE 802.16 standard does not specify the scheduling algorithm to be used. Operators have the choice among many existing scheduling techniques. Also, they can propose their own scheduling algorithms. In this paper, we propose a scheduling strategy (Adaptive Weighted Round Robin, AWRR) for various Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services traffic over 802.16j networks. Our scheme adapts dynamically the scheduler operation to according queue load and quality of service constraints. In particular, the proposed mechanism gives more priority to high definition television and standard definition television traffic by using two schedulers. The proposed scheduling algorithm has been simulated using the QualNet network simulator. The experimental results show that our scheduler schemes AWRR have a better performance than the traditional scheduling techniques for rtPS traffic, which allows ensuring QoS requirements for IPTV application. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

IEEE802.16中多媒体QoS保证机制的研究

首先分析了IEEE802.16四种业务类型的特点及QoS服务模型,对IEEE802.16的QoS机制和调度策略进行了深入的研究,并对相应的调度算法进行了分析。结果表明,IEEE802.16能够对实时业务提供较好的支持,同时维持其它业务的带宽在可接受的范围之内。     

Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support

The IEEE 802.16 is a standard for broadband wireless communication in metropolitan area networks (MAN). To meet the QoS requirements of multimedia applications, the IEEE 802.16 standard provides four different scheduling services: unsolicited grant service (UGS), real-time polling service (rtPS), non-real-time polling service (nrtPS), and Best Effort (BE). The paper is aimed at verifying, via simulation, the effectiveness of rtPS, nrtPS, and BE (but UGS) in managing traffic generated by data and multimedia sources. Performance is assessed for an IEEE 802.16 wireless system working in point-to-multipoint (PMP) mode, with frequency division duplex (FDD), and with full-duplex subscriber stations (SSs). Our results show that the performance of the system, in terms of throughput and delay, depends on several factors. These include the frame duration, the mechanisms for requesting uplink bandwidth, and the offered load partitioning, i.e., the way traffic is distributed among SSs, connections within each SS, and traffic sources within each connection. The results also highlight that the rtPS scheduling service is a very robust scheduling service for meeting the delay requirements of multimedia applications     

基于IEEE 802.16标准的Mesh机制研究

重点介绍了基于IEEE 802.16标准的Mesh网络结构,首先详细介绍了目前WiMAX系统常用的PMP网络拓扑结构、扩展覆盖范围和提高远离基站的用户吞吐量,然后介绍了Mesh技术,最后对Mesh网络中新结点随机接入过程进行了详细阐述.     

Performance evaluation of utility‐based scheduling schemes with QoS guarantees in IEEE 802.16/WiMAX systems

One of the most important benefits that WiMAX technology brings, the ability to provide differentiated quality of service (QoS) guarantees, could also prove to be the largest problem for system designers, because scheduling mechanisms able to cope with these demands have not been explicitly defined in the standard. In order to facilitate the understanding of how various scheduling schemes perform in a real system, we present here a detailed performance evaluation of some utility‐based scheduling algorithms, covering aspects like fairness and QoS provisioning. Through a series of extensive simulations, we analyse the ability of the scheduling schemes considered to strike a balance between fairness among users, or more restrictively, user QoS requirement satisfaction, and system efficiency maximization. Further, we show how several simple algorithms could be used as building blocks, constructing a powerful mechanism that allows the system designer to obtain any desired system behaviour, or even to dynamically change from one profile to another, depending on specific network‐related conditions. More specifically, by combining the benefits of proportional fair (PF) scheduling with the highly desirable system capacity maximization, and also taking into account a peak‐to‐average (PTA) channel quality metric, we are able to define a rule that outperforms traditional scheduling schemes, copes with various network conditions and provides graceful service degradation. Our results indicate that, by exploiting the intrinsic properties of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) as well as the mechanisms of the WiMAX system that are not regulated by the standard, one could increase the system efficiency, while fully respecting the QoS guarantees imposed. The use of algorithms that provide graceful performance degradation is highly advisable, in order to be able to employ a non‐conservative call admission control (CAC) mechanism, which further improves the overall spectral efficiency by maintaining the system close to saturation at all times. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cross-layer Scheduling Algorithms for IEEE 802.16 Based Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is emerging as an important networking architecture for future wireless communications. The mesh mode supported in IEEE 802.16 protocol provides a TDMA solution for WMN, in which scheduling is an important issue. In this paper, we discuss the issues on how to satisfy a set of bandwidth requests in IEEE 802.16 WMNs using minimal radio resources (or solving minimal schedule length problem). In consideration of transmission overhead and adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), two cross-layer scheduling algorithms are proposed, namely max-transmission and priority-based algorithms. In particular, they are proposed based on a physical interference model, instead of a protocol interference model as suggested in the literature. For the priority-based algorithm, we study several priority criteria based on different cross-layer information. An iterative scheme for QoS traffic is introduced to guarantee fairness when traffic load exceeds the network capacity. Simulation results show that our algorithms outperform the existing schemes based on protocol model, and they also ensure better fairness among different nodes.     

IEEE 802.16标准与WiMAX技术浅析

本文首先介绍了WiMAX的技术基础IEEE 802.16系列标准的制定及发展现状,并着重对该标准的媒体访问控制子层和物理层的技术特点进行了分析.文章将用于构建WLAN的IEEE 802.11系列标准与用于构建WMAN的IEEE 802.16系列标准进行了比较.在文章最后,作者描述了WiMAX技术的应用场景,尝试性提出了WiMAX的几点应用并对该项技术做了展望.     

Design of the QoS framework for the IEEE 802.16 mesh networks

IEEE 802.16 (WiMax) technology is designed to support broadband speeds over wireless networks for the coming era of broadband wireless access (BWA). IEEE 802.16 is expected to provide transmission of high‐rate and high‐volume multimedia data streams for fixed and mobile applications. As an extension of point‐to‐multipoint (PMP) configuration, the IEEE 802.16 mesh mode provides a quicker and more flexible approach for network deployment. Multimedia networking requires quality‐of‐service (QoS) support, which demands elaborate mechanisms in addition to the four service types defined in the specification. By examining standard centralized and distributed scheduling/routing schemes in the mesh mode from QoS aspect, a BS‐controlled and delay‐sensitive scheduling/routing scheme is proposed in the paper. Associate mechanisms including admission control, flow setup and link state monitoring are also proposed. Integration of the proposed mechanisms is presented as a complete QoS framework. Simulation study has demonstrated that the average delay as well as the delay jitters per hop in the proposed scheme is smaller than that of the distributed scheme and much smaller than that of the centralized scheme. Furthermore, proposed mechanisms can also achieve higher throughput than the contrasts and generate much smaller signaling overhead, making the proposed framework a promising scheme for multimedia support in the IEEE 802.16 mesh network. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Robust QoS Control for Single Carrier PMP Mode IEEE 802.16 Systems

The IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN standard provides a comprehensive quality-of-service (QoS) control structure to enable flow isolation and service differentiation over the common wireless network interface. By specifying a particular set of service parameters, the media access control (MAC) mechanisms defined in the standard are able to offer predefined QoS provisioning on a per-connection basis. However, the design of efficient, flexible, and yet robust MAC scheduling algorithms for such QoS provisioning still remains an open topic. This paper proposes a new QoS control scheme for single-carrier point-to-multipoint mode wireless metropolitan area network (WirelessMAN) systems, which enables the predefined service parameters to control the service provided to each uplink and downlink connection. By MAC-PHY cross-layer resource allocation, the proposed scheme is robust against particular wireless link degradation. Detailed simulation experiments are presented to study the performance and to validate the effectiveness of the proposed QoS control scheme.     

Resource Management and QoS Provisioning for Duplex Services in IEEE 802.16

Duplex services are multimedia services that requires good connectivity in both uplink and downlink such as VoIP, video conferencing and interactive gaming. A weak connection in either direction may cause degradation of performances and dissatisfaction of user experience. Most researchers do not consider this issue and treat resource allocations in uplink and downlink independently. For this reason, the conventional resource management schemes do not guarantee a good duplex connectivity. Generally, duplex schemes require some relation or information to be exchanged between uplink and downlink resource allocation processes. The existing duplex resource allocation schemes, however, have high complexity and do not adhere to the IEEE 802.16 standard. In this paper, we propose a duplex resource management scheme for IEEE 802.16 network to enhance the user experience and to improve the network performances. The proposed resource management scheme is a MAC layer function that co-relates the uplink and downlink allocation processes using a newly proposed duplex variable. Simulation studies show that the proposed scheme brings significant benefit to duplex services in the IEEE 802.16 networks and outperforms the conventional and existing schemes in terms of uplink and downlink transmission gap, QoS performances and fairness.     

IEEE 802.16 Mesh Schedulers: Issues and Design Challenges

IEEE 802.16 mesh mode defines three types of resource scheduling: coordinated centralized, coordinated distributed, and uncoordinated distributed. While the standard defines the required procedures and messages for each scheduler, it does not offer encouraging means to provide performance, reliability, or QoS. In this article we outline the issues of IEEE 802.16 mesh schedulers. We also survey representative proposals and qualitatively evaluate them against these issues. More critically, we identify key challenges that have not been addressed so far in the literature to motivate work in this area of research.