Slot allocation strategies for TDMA protocols in multihop packet radio networks
IEEE INFOCOM '92 Proceedings of the eleventh annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies on One world through communications (Vol. 2)
Making transmission schedules immune to topology changes in multi-hop packet radio networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Link scheduling in wireless sensor networks: Distributed edge-coloring revisited
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
A survey on wireless mesh networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
A survey on emerging broadband wireless access technologies
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
FEBA: a bandwidth allocation algorithm for service differentiation in IEEE 802.16 mesh networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An efficient scheduling algorithm for maximizing throughput in WiMAX mesh networks
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
NETWORKING'08 Proceedings of the 7th international IFIP-TC6 networking conference on AdHoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
WiMAX-RBDS-Sim: an OPNET simulation framework for IEEE 802.16 mesh networks
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Coordinated transmission in distributed ad hoc peer-to-peer (P2P) communications
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
INPAC: an enforceable incentive scheme for wireless networks using network coding
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
OLSR-aware channel access scheduling in wireless mesh networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Efficient routing and centralized scheduling algorithms for IEEE 802.16 mesh networks
International Journal of Network Management
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The IEEE 802.16 standard proposes the Media Access Control (MAC) protocol for the Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN). Two transmission modes are defined in the IEEE 802.16, including Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) mode and mesh mode. In the 802.16 mesh mode, allocation of minislots can be handled by the centralized and distributed scheduling mechanisms. This paper proposes the Combined Distributed and Centralized (CDC) scheme to combine the distributed scheduling and centralized scheduling mechanisms so that the minislot allocation can be more flexible, and the utilization is increased. Two scheduling algorithms, Round Robin (RR) and Greedy, are proposed as the baseline algorithms for the centralized scheduling mechanism. We conduct simulation experiments to investigate the performance of the CDC scheme with the RR and Greedy algorithms. Our study indicates that with CDC scheme, the minislot utilization can be significantly increased.