Performance analysis of contention based bandwidth request mechanisms in WiMAX networks

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 477-486

  Ni, Qiang ^a   Hu, Ling ^a   Vinel, Alexey ^b   Xiao, Yang ^c   Hadjinicolaou, Marios ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth request (BW REQ); broadband wireless access (BWA); IEEE 802.16; Markov chain; medium access control (MAC); performance analysis; quality of service (QoS); WiMAX

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH REQUEST; BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESSS; IEEE 802.16; MARKOV CHAIN; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY CONTROL; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIMAX;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 78649514861     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2088770     Document Type: Article

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