Adjusting holdoff time of the IEEE 802.16 in mesh mode
NTMS'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on New technologies, mobility and security
Design a novel fairness model in WiMAX mesh networks
Computer Communications
Distributed scheduling schemes for wireless mesh networks: A survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Performance analysis of WiMAX-based wireless mesh networks using an M/D/1 queuing model
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
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IEEE 802.16 standard (also known as WiMAX) defines the wireless broadband network technology which aims to solve the so called last mile problem via providing high bandwidth Internet even to the rural areas for which the cable deployment is very costly. The standard mainly focuses on the MAC and PHY layer issues, supporting two transmission modes: PMP (Point-to-Multipoint) and mesh modes. Mesh mode is an optional mode developed as an extension to PMP mode and it has the advantage of having an improving performance as more subscribers are added to the system using multi-hop routes. In 802.16 MAC protocol, mesh mode slot allocation and reservation mechanisms are left open which makes this topic a hot research area. Hence, the focus of this survey will mostly be on the mesh mode, and the proposed scheduling algorithms and performance evaluation methods.