Title
Scheduling in multihop WiMAX networks
Abstract
IEEE 802.16, popularly known as WiMAX, is at the forefront of the technology drive because of the growing demand for high-speed wireless broadband networks. Multihop WiMAX networks are particularly useful as they increase the coverage area without the need to deploy expensive base stations. There are two kinds of multihop WiMAX networks - WiMAX mesh and Mobile Multihop Relay Networks. Scheduling is very important in both of these multihop WiMAX networks. The links have to be scheduled in such a way so that they do not interfere with each other while maximizing the throughput of the networks. As WiMAX networks are geared towards broadband applications, any scheduling scheme should accomodate the rate, latency and jitter requirements of the applications. This article provides an insight to the scheduling framework presented in the IEEE 802.16 standard. It also presents a few representative research proposals for centralized scheduling in WiMAX networks. We discuss some of the research issues and challenges that need to be addressed for multihop WiMAX networks to realize their full potential.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1394555.1394557
Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile multihop relay networks,centralized scheduling,multihop wimax network,representative research proposal,broadband application,wimax network,scheduling scheme,wimax mesh,broadband network,scheduling framework,base station
Base station,Wireless broadband,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Computer network,WiMAX,Access network discovery and selection function,Jitter,Throughput,Relay,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
12
2
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Debalina Ghosh1413.67
Ashima Gupta2939.17
Prasant Mohapatra34344304.46