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Channel Aware Uplink Scheduler for a Mobile Subscriber Station of IEEE 802.16e
The scheduling part of the IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) standards
is kept as an open issue to provide differentiation among
equipment manufacturers and operators. The uplink
scheduling is very significant and more complex compared
to downlink scheduling. Uplink scheduling is divided into
two parts; one is scheduling the resources among many users
from a base station (BS) and the other is sharing the
resources among its services in a single user. BS uplink
scheduling has been given more attention compared to
subscriber station (SS) uplink scheduling. SS scheduler
plays a significant role in providing the quality of service
(QoS) among its services. The channel status awareness is
vital in designing the SS scheduler as the channel conditions vary for a mobile user. This work proposes a scheduling algorithm for SS, which utilizes the channel information and queue length variation for the reallocation of received aggregated bandwidth grant to optimize the QoS parameters. The performance of the proposed algorithm is studied by conducting simulations using QualNet 5.0.2 simulation tool. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm to improve the QoS