Impact of bandwidth request schemes for Best-Effort traffic in IEEE 802.16 networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-245

  Kim, Seungwoon ^a   Lee, Minwook ^b   Yeom, Ikjun ^c  

^a Agency for Defence Development   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bandwidth request; IEEE 802.16

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

BANDWIDTH ALLOCATIONS; BANDWIDTH REQUEST; BE TRAFFICS; BUFFER LENGTHS; COLLISION RATES; IEEE 802.16; SENDING RATES; SIMULATION STUDIES;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 58249102196     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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