Title
Uplink and downlink scheduling for point to multipoint WiMAX Networks
Abstract
IEEE 802.16 standard lacks a Media Access Control (MAC) scheduling architecture to enforce Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of different services classes. In this paper, we propose an opportunistic and optimized scheduler that meets connections' QoS requirements while it pledges fairness among admitted connections. Our approach involves separating the scheduling problem into two sub-problems. In the first sub-problem, which addresses interclass time-slots allocation, the proposed scheduler calculates the optimum number of time-slots in each time frame corresponding to the service classes with the objective of minimizing the blocking probability of each class. In the second sub-problem, the intraclass slot allocation problem, time-slots for each class are allocated using an integrated cross-layer priority functions (PFs) that provide proportional fairness among a class connections. The simulation results reveal that the proposed scheduler realizes our objectives, and provides efficient QoS scheduling without starving the connections of the BE class. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1002/wcm.v9:9
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
WiMax,scheduling,RRM,QoS,access networks
Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling,Media access control,Job shop scheduling,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Computer network,Quality of service,WiMAX,Resource allocation,Access network,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
9
1530-8669
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad Hayajneh1255.67
Najah A. Abu Ali210012.40
Issa Khalil356538.01