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Joint Concurrent Routing and Multi-Pointer Packet Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks
IEEE 802.16, also known as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
(WiMAX), is a standardization effort carried out by the IEEE to provide last-mile
broadband access to end users. The IEEE 802.16 standard
supports two medium access control (MAC) modes - a mandatory point to multipoint
(PMP) mode and an optional mesh mode. In this paper, we propose an
asymmetric interference aware routing algorithm and a new multipointer approach in
implementing scheduling algorithms for IEEE 802.16 mesh networks. We modify three
different centralized scheduling algorithms, fixed scheduling,
ordered scheduling and per-slot scheduling using multipointer approach to allow for
spatial reuse (SR) in IEEE 802.16 mesh networks. Simulation results
reveal that fixed scheduling with SR provides the best performance