A performance study of uplink scheduling algorithms in point-to-multipoint WiMAX networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 511-521

  Ali, Najah Abu ^a   Dhrona, Pratik ^b   Hassanein, Hossam ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Redline Communications Inc   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

OFDM; Performance evaluation; RRM; Scheduling; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AD HOC NETWORKS; ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTEROPERABILITY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SPECIFICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BAND-WIDTH UTILIZATIONS; CLASSES OF SERVICES; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; CRITICAL PARTS; IEEE 802.16; IEEE 802.16 STANDARDS; MAC LAYERS; MEDIUM-ACCESS CONTROLS; MULTIPLE CLASS; OFDM; PACKET SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; PACKET-SCHEDULING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE STUDIES; PHYSICAL LAYERS; POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT; PROTOCOL DESIGNERS; RESEARCH AREAS; RRM; SERVICE CLASS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TRANSMISSION ORDERS; UPLINK SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WIMAX; WIMAX NETWORKS;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 59149093628     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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