Advanced power calibration for random access in the IEEE 802.16 system

Authors:
Xuan Nie;Chengfu Wu;Huaimin Chen
Affiliations:
College of Software and Microelectronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China;National Laboratory of UAV Special Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China;National Laboratory of UAV Special Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China
Venue:
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Random access channel is incorporated in IEEE 802.16 WiMAX system to transport contention-based messages in the uplink, such as bandwidth requests generated by best effort applications, from mobile stations (MSs) to the base station (BS). Regarding the packet transmissions in the random access channel, delay, throughput and power consumption are usually considered as major performance metrics. We propose an enhanced power calibration protocol to optimize the system performance in terms of channel access delay, system throughput and MS transmit power consumption. Optimal selection of power levels is formulated in order to maximize the achievable throughput while being subject to power consumption constraint of mobile stations. Our scheme can substitute the random backoff mechanism in the current the WiMAX uplink random access channel, as it can accomplish a better access delay performance without an increment of design complexity. Simulations are conducted to validate our protocol and confirm its performance superiority as compared to the random channel access method used in the current WiMAX.