The recent developments in the broadband wireless access (BWA) communication systems have introduced several major changes to the existing systems. Legacy IEEE 802.16j is one such amendment to the existing IEEE 802.16 WiMAX family. The key modification introduced by 802.16j system is the
concept of relay station (RS), which may be used to enhance the system coverage or to make system throughput optimal. The end terminals, subscriber stations (SS) are unchanged in the standard. The overall change pertinent to the system has raised many unresolved issues related to RS and multi-hop
relay base station (MR-BS). The selection of path from a SS to MR-BS via a RS is also one of the issues,
need to be addressed. The path selection of a SS in both uplink and downlink directions is left open in the
standard. It is very significant to satisfy the traffics of stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements and
to appropriately manage the resources of a cell under different circumstances. This paper proposes a
path selection algorithm to achieve the aforementioned qualities in the network. The path selection
metrics include traffic load of the transparent relay station and traffic sensitivity factor of the SS. An
extensive simulation work discusses the performance evaluation of the proposed work using QualNet simulator
