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Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support Aemen Hassaan Lodhi Outline IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC layer Project Objective Simulation Environment Performance Metrics Work accomplished Future strategy IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) Wireless MAN – provides network access to subscriber stations (SS) with radio base stations (BS) Offers an alternative to cabled access networks – fiber optic links, coaxial cables using cable modems, DSL links Supports nomadic and mobile clients on the go (IEEE 802.16 e, 2004) MAC layer Manage the resources of the air-link efficiently and provide Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation for different connections/streams Supporting Point to Multipoint and Mesh network models Performing Link Adaption ARQ functions Transmission Scheduling Admission Control Link Initialization Fragmentation and Retransmission Project Objective Verify via simulation the ability of IEEE 802.16 MAC to handle multimedia traffic having stringent QoS requirements Determine the best scheduling scheme provided by IEEE 802.16 for multimedia traffic Simulations to be performed on NS-2 Scheduling Services provided by IEEE 802.16 MAC Classification of applications based on the commonality of: QoS service requirements (e.g. real time applications with stringent delay requirements, best effort service applications with minimum guaranteed bandwidth) Packet arrival pattern (fixed/variable sized data packets at periodic/aperiodic intervals) Mechanisms to send Bandwidth requests to the BS Scheduling Services provided by IEEE 802.16 MAC Unsolicited Grant Service – supports real-time applications with strict delay requirements with fixed sized data packets Real-Time Polling Service – supports real time applications with less stringent delay requirements, generating variable sized data packets Non-Real-Time Service – supports applications with no specific delay requirements, reserves a minimum amount of bandwidth Best Effort Service – supports applications w