Investigation on mutual contention bandwidth request mechanisms in two-hop relay network with ITU-R path loss models

Authors:
Rajesh Anbazhagan;Nakkeeran Rangaswamy
Affiliations:
Department of Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India;Department of Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
Venue:
ISRN Communications and Networking
Year:
2013

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Abstract

The performance of two-hop contention based bandwidth request (BR) mechanism for WiMAX relay networks is investigated under ITU-R path loss models. In conventional WiMAX systems, the mobile stations (MS) update their contention window irrespective of their transmission failures. Those systems update their contention window on collision and due to channel error or unavailability of bandwidth. Further, these failure models have been suggested for single hop networks. The failure model in two-hop systems becomes complex since it may include additional failure events such as improper detection of codes and channel error due to varying path loss. Interestingly, these failure events (collision, channel error, unavailability of bandwidth, and improper detection of codes) do not occur evenly for both hops of a link.Hence, to set the contention windoweffectively, unique failuremodels are developed by considering the characteristics of BR mechanism and hop at which the BR is performed. In the proposed system, the two-hop BR is carried out with all combinations of message and code bandwidth request schemes. Among them, the messagecode BR mechanism performs better under suburban fixed and outdoor to indoor or pedestrian environment, and code-code BR scheme performs better for vehicular environment.