A Simple and Effective QoS Differentiation Scheme in IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Mesh Networking Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1781879, abstract = {Due to the inherent flexibility, scalability and reliability advantages of mesh networking architecture, the IEEE 802.16 working group is actively standardizing the mesh mode. Compared with the point-to-multipoint (PMP) mode, the newly introduced mesh mode has not specified any solution for providing quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms in the literature. In this paper, a simple and effective scheme achieving QoS differentiation in the WiMAX mesh networking mode was proposed and analyzed. In addition, by taking account into the dynamics of networks topologies and also the variations of different protocols, a characteristics matrix for a mesh network from stochastic point of view was introduced. Based on the matrix, a new formula was developed for the performance metrics which enables the theoretical evaluation of a random topology. Illustrative numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, and also the impacts of the key parameters in differentiating the various services.}, author = {Zhang, Yan and Zheng, Jun and Li, Wei}, booktitle = {Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE}, citeulike-article-id = {1781879}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2007.593}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4224838}, doi = {10.1109/WCNC.2007.593}, journal = {Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE}, keywords = {80216, differentiation, effective, ieee, mesh, mesh-network, network, networks, qos, quality, quality-of-service, scheme, service, simple, wimax, wireless, wireless-mesh, wireless-mesh-network, wireless-network, wmn}, pages = {3216--3220}, posted-at = {2009-07-03 03:09:43}, priority = {4}, title = {A Simple and Effective QoS Differentiation Scheme in IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Mesh Networking}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2007.593}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1781879 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1781879 N2 - Due to the inherent flexibility, scalability and reliability advantages of mesh networking architecture, the IEEE 802.16 working group is actively standardizing the mesh mode. Compared with the point-to-multipoint (PMP) mode, the newly introduced mesh mode has not specified any solution for providing quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms in the literature. In this paper, a simple and effective scheme achieving QoS differentiation in the WiMAX mesh networking mode was proposed and analyzed. In addition, by taking account into the dynamics of networks topologies and also the variations of different protocols, a characteristics matrix for a mesh network from stochastic point of view was introduced. Based on the matrix, a new formula was developed for the performance metrics which enables the theoretical evaluation of a random topology. Illustrative numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, and also the impacts of the key parameters in differentiating the various services. JF - Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE EP - 3220 TI - A Simple and Effective QoS Differentiation Scheme in IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Mesh Networking T2 - Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE SP - 3216 KW - 80216 KW - differentiation KW - effective KW - ieee KW - mesh KW - mesh-network KW - network KW - networks KW - qos KW - quality KW - quality-of-service KW - scheme KW - service KW - simple KW - wimax KW - wireless KW - wireless-mesh KW - wireless-mesh-network KW - wireless-network KW - wmn AU - Zhang, Yan AU - Zheng, Jun AU - Li, Wei PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2007.593 ER -