Towards formal specification of the service in the IEEE 802.16 MAC layer for connection management

  • Authors:
  • Ana Veronica Morales Bezeira;Maria Elena Villapol Blanco

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratorio ICARO, Escuela de Computación, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias, Caracas, Venezuela;Laboratorio ICARO, Escuela de Computación, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias, Caracas, Venezuela

  • Venue:
  • CIMMACS '10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The IEEE 802.16 standard specifies and describes the air interface of Broadband Wireless Access Systems (BWA) and point-multipoint fixed and mobile wireless metropolitan area networks, and is limited to the description of the Medium Access Control (MAC) and physical (PHY) layers. The MAC is connection-oriented, so some of its functions are related to the connection management. It is being modeled and analyzed using a wellknown verification methodology. The methodology includes a service and protocol specification. This paper is focused on the definition, modeling, and analysis of the MAC connection management service specification. A service language including all the possible service primitive sequences was also generated. It is being used as part of the verification process of the connection management protocol.