123 research outputs found
Assessing WiMAX for vehicular communications applications
Mestrado em Engenharia Electrónica e TelecomunicaçõesOs acidentes rodoviários têm um enorme impacto na sociedade, quer devido às perdas humanas daí resultantes quer devido aos custos económicos a si associados. Por todo o mundo, esta situação levou ao estudo de mecanismos que permitem aumentar a segurança nas estradas. Por exemplo, na Europa estão a ser financiados vários projectos para desenvolver estes mecanismos e a maior parte das iniciativas em curso requerem a possibilidade dos veículos comunicarem entre si e/ou com estações que se encontram fixas junto à estrada. Devido aos requisitos de mobilidade dos veículos, as tecnologias de comunicação sem fios têm um papel crucial neste tipo de aplicações. Neste sentido, esta dissertação avalia a adequação da tecnologia de comunicação sem fios WiMAX para a transmissão de serviços de segurança rodoviária e/ou outros, entre os veículos e a infraestrutura, usando para isso os mecanismos integrados de diferenciação de tráfego desta mesma tecnologia de comunicação. Especificamente, o objectivo é avaliar se estes mecanismos são apropriados para fornecer os serviços atrás mencionados tendo em conta os seus requisitos tempo-real (largura de banda, latência, variação da latência, etc.).Road accidents have a huge impact on the society, both because of the resulting human life losses and injuries as well as because of the associated economic costs. This situation fostered the study of mechanisms for increasing road safety all over the world. In Europe, several projects are being funded to develop such mechanisms. Many of the approaches that are being pursued require the ability of the vehicles to communicate with each other and/or with fixed roadside equipments. Due to the mobility constraints, wireless technologies have a crucial role in this kind of applications. This dissertation assesses the suitability of the WiMAX wireless technology for supplying vehicle to infrastructure road safety services and others, using this communication technology integrated quality of service mechanisms that provides traffic differentiation. Specifically, the purpose is to evaluate if these mechanisms are appropriate to provide the referred services taking in account their real-time requirements (bandwidth, latency, jitter, etc.)
WiMax - a critical view of the technology and its economics
University of the Witwatersrand
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
School of Information and Electrical EngineeringMobile Broadband is now more of a necessity than a luxury, especially amongst the younger generation, irrespective of where they live. Mobile WiMax and LTE, the latest and fastest Mobile Broadband technologies, mark significant improvements over 3G networks because they use IP (Internet Protocol) end-to-end. To end-users, this means faster network speeds, better quality services, and increased coverage area. To the Network Operators, this means simplified network architectures, efficient use of resources, and improved security. In this report, the different issues and challenges related to deploying Mobile WiMax (802.16e or 802.16m) in rural South Africa, were identifed and explored. In this project, Atoll, SONAR, and Touch Point analysis tools were used to determine which Mobile Broadband technology is economically and technically suited for rural South Africa. It was found that LTE yields superior performance results than WiMax, which in turn yields superior performance results to all other existing 3G technologies. However it will take time for LTE to reach rural areas therefore WiMax can be considered as a solution to extend Broadband services to rural South Africa and thus assist in bridging the digital divide. Recommendations on how best to deploy Mobile WiMax are made based on observations made from the experimental work.MT201
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Performance evaluation of fixed WiMax physical layer under high fading channels
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Master of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.A radio channel characteristic modelling is essential in every network planning. This project deals with the performance of WiMax networks in an outdoor environment while using fading channel models. The radio channels characteristics are analyzed by simulations have been done using Matlab programming. Stanford University Interim(SUI) Channels set was proposed to simulate the fixed broadband wireless access channel environments where IEEE 802.16d is to be deployed. It has six channel models that are grouped into three categories according to three typical different outdoor Terrains, in order to give a comprehensive study of fading channels on the overall performance of the system, WiMax system has been tested under SUI channels that modified into account for 30o directional antennas, with 90% cell coverage and with 99.9% reliability in its geographical covered area. Furthermore, in order to combat the fading which occurs in urban areas and improve the capacity and the throughput of the system, multiples antennas at both ends of communication link are used, the transmission gain obtained when using multiple antennas instead of only a single antenna. Space-time coding and maximum ratio combining for more than one transmit and receive antenna is implemented to allow performance investigations in various MIMO scenarios. It has been concluded that uses multiple antennas at the receiver offers a significant improvement of 3 dB of gain in the channel SNR. This thesis also contain implementation of all compulsory features of the WiMax OFDM physical layer specified in IEEE 802.16-2004 using Matlab coding. In order to combat the temporal variations in quality on a multipath fading channel, an adaptive modulation technique is used. This technique employs multiple modulation schemes to instantaneously adapt to the variations in the channel SNR, thus maximizing the system throughput and improving BER performance. WiMax transceiver has been tested with and without encoding and studied the effect of encoding on multipath channel. Testing the system with flexible channel bandwidth has been part of this thesis. Finally it has been explained in this thesis the affect of increasing the size of cyclic prefix on overall performance of WiMax system
An efficient scheduling for diverse QoS requirements in WiMAX
WiMAX is one of the most important broadband wireless technologies and is anticipated to be a viable alternative to traditional wired broadband techniques due to its cost efficiency. Being an emerging technology, WiMAX supports multimedia applications such as voice over IP (VoIP), voice conference and online gaming. It is necessary to provide Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteed with different characteristics, quite challenging, however, for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) networks. Therefore, an effective scheduling is critical for the WiMAX system. Many traffic scheduling algorithms are available for wireless networks, e.g. Round Robin, Proportional Fairness (PF) scheme and Integrated Cross-layer scheme (ICL). Among these conventional schemes, some cannot differentiate services, while some can fulfill the service differentiation with a high-complexity implementation.
This thesis proposes a novel scheduling algorithm for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex/Time Division Multiple Access (OFDM/TDMA)-based systems, which extends the PF scheme to multiple service types with diverse QoS requirements. The design objective is to provide differentiated services according to their QoS requirements, while the objective can be achieved by adjusting only one unique parameter, the time window for evaluating the average throughput. By extensive simulation, it is shown that the proposed scheduling algorithm exploits the advantage of the PF scheme, enhancing the throughput, and distinguishes the services in terms of the average delay. Afterward, we prove the superiority of the new scheme over the conventional ones by showing simulation results
Antenna and frequency diversity improvement in mimo wimax technology.
Kepelbagaian ialah teknik komunikasi berpengaruh yang mengatasi kekaburan dengan memanfaatkan sifat rawak saluran tanpa wayar dan mengesan laluan isyarat bebas antara pemancar dengan penerima. Dalam lapisan fizikal WiMAX (PHY) teknik kepelbagaian seperti kepelbagaian masa, kepelbagaian frekuensi dan
kepelbagaian antena digunakan untuk meningkatkan prestasi. Tujuan utama tesis ini ialah meningkatkan prestasi kepelbagaian WiMAX PHY.
Diversity is an influential communication technique that combats fading by exploiting the random nature of the wireless channel and finding independent signal paths between the transmitter and the receiver. In WiMAX PHY, diversity
techniques such as time diversity, frequency diversity and antenna diversity are used to improve performance. The main objectives of this thesis are to improve diversity performance in WiMAX PHY
Improved QoS Support for WiMAX Networks: A Survey
Quality of Service (QoS) is considered as the backbone of any Broadband media access network of which WiMAX is not an exception. Immense work is being carried out in the academia in this area. The goal is to come up with improved QoS to support different traffics in WiMAX network. This work presents a survey of the various current states-of-the-art QoS schemes that could be utilised to realise a guaranteed QoS necessary for effective general high WiMAX access network performance. We concentrate on three approaches. The approaches include Hierarchical Scheduling Framework for QoS in WiMAX point-to-point Networks, this approach divides scheduling scheme into three different Tiers. Others are Cross-layer Optimization Framework and Resource Allocation for Improved QoS in WiMAX; and On-demand Bandwidth Allocation for WiMAX. Keywords: WiMAX, QoS, Scheduling, Broadband, Bandwidth, Throughput
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