Performance evaluation of the mesh election procedure of ieee 802.16/wimax

Authors:
Claudio Cicconetti;Alessandro Erta;Luciano Lenzini;Enzo Mingozzi
Affiliations:
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy;University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

IEEE 802.16 is a recent standard for Broadband Wireless Access networks, which includes a mesh mode operation for distributed channel access of peering nodes. In accordance with the IEEE 802.16 MAC protocol, time is partitioned into frames of fixed duration, each one divided into two sub-frames, for control and data transmission, respectively. Slots in the control sub-frame are used by nodes to negotiate the schedule of transmissions in data sub-frames, and are accessed by means of a collision-free distributed procedure, namely the mesh election procedure. In this paper, we analyze the performance of the mesh election procedure by means of extensive simulations, and identify the system configuration parameters that have the most impact on the performance of control message transmission. The analysis is carried out under the assumption that the wireless link is error-free.