On the effectiveness of integrating WiMAX and Wi-Fi

  • Authors:
  • Huanxu Pan;Satoru Yamano;Hideaki Tani

  • Affiliations:
  • Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8666, Japan.;Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8666, Japan.;Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8666, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we give a quantitative evaluation on the effect of integrating WiMAX and Wi-Fi, as compared to the case of separate WiMAX and Wi-Fi systems, with respect to the system capacity under QoS constraint. We focus particularly on the VoIP traffic aspects of the system. Based on this capacity evaluation, a cost analysis is further presented. We also propose and analyse a resource management scheme on Wi-Fi to WiMAX handover.