Proposal for Research & Development course work 1

An Analysis of QoS for Multimedia in WiMax Networks

Introduction:
WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), a revolution in
broadband wireless access (BWA), a very fast adopted wireless technology. This was
introduced by WiMax forum (http://www.wimaxforum.org) in 2001. WiMax is the
commercial name of IEEE802.16 standard. From the very beginning till now it is
becoming a leading wireless technology to provide broadband service in the wide area
networks. As a new technology WiMax is the answer for those questions that was
unanswered by the existing technologies such as Wi-fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee etc. It is
called the last mile connectivity as it is capable of transfer more reliable, high speed and
secured data within a higher range.
In terms of raw transmission capability performance, WiMax is capable to
achieve a data rates up to 75 Mb/s with a 20 MHz channel in ideal propagation
circumstance as compared to 25 Mb/s with a 20 MHz channel for Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11.a
or g), where it is possible to cover up to 50 Kilo Meter area [1]. WiMax works in both
Line-of-Sight and Non Line-of-sight environment. The typical coverage area is around 5
km for non-line-of-sight condition and 15 km for line-of-sight condition [1].

QoS for WiMax Networks:

Though it is hard to define Quality of Service (QoS) formally and specifically,
according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) QoS deffination comprise
of 6 broad components: Support,Operability, accessibility,Reliability, Intigrity and
Security [3]. The Medium Access Control (MAC) layer is responsible for the quality of
service (QoS) mechanism in a WiMax network [3] [4]. The MAC layer defines service
flow that enables IP based end-to-end quality of service by scheduling the bandwidth for
different users [3]. Different multimedia applications such as voice over IP (VOIP),
video conferencing, video on demand (VOD) etc. in a WiMax network, is supported by
four types of service flow: Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS), real-time Polling service
(rtPS), non-real-time Polling Service (nrtPS) and Best Effort Service (BES) [9]. Service
flows are created, deleted and changed by issuing Dynamic Service addition (DSA),
Dynamic Service Deletion (DSD) and Dynamic Service Change (DSC) which can be
initiated either by the Subscriber Station (SS) or by the Base Station (BS) [3].

Table 1: QoS requirements for different applications [13]

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Aims and Objective:

The WiMax network was designed with quality of service (QoS) in mind [3],
the aim of this research and development project is to identify and analyse the quality of
service that are implemented by the WiMax network for multimedia applications.
 Brief understanding of QoS requirements of WiMax network
 Identify QoS architecture of integrating different multimedia applications
 Understanding and investigating on various transmission technologies used
to achieve better QoS
 Understanding and analyzing of the parameters that indicates the quality of
service like packet loss, jitter, average delay, throughput etc.
 Identify the service flows designed for multimedia applications to achieve
better QoS

My Area of Focus and Research:

Typical broadband wireless technologies implementation mainly rely on
Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) based architecture [1]. Therefore my area of research will be
based on the PMP architecture only.
This research mainly focuses on the analysis of QoS for multimedia inWiMax
networks. I will focus on the detail implementation of QoS for multimedia in the WiMax
networks. As stated above the QoS parameters will be discussed briefly in this project. I
will try to distinguish between different service flows with respect to the QoS parameters.
And further more if I get opportunity I will focus on some scheduling algorithm for QoS
that are been implemented in the MAC layer of WiMax network.

References:
[1] Francesco De Pellegrini, Daniele Miorandi, Elio Salvadori and Nicola Scalabrino.
“QoS Support in WiMax Networks: Issues and Experimental measurement”, Technical
Report N.200600009, CREATE-NET, June 16, 2006.

[2] J. G. Andrews, A. Ghosh, R. Muhamed. “Fundamentals of WiMax: Understanding

Broadband wireless Networking”, Prentice Hall, Feb-2007

[3] Rohit A Talwalkar, Mohammad Ilyas. “Analysis of Quality of service (QoS) in

WiMax networks” 16th IEEE International Conference, 2008, ICON 2008, 12-14
December, Page(s) 1-8, digital Object identifier 10.1109/ICON.2008.4772615

[4] Claudio Cicconetti, Luciano Lenzini, Enzo Mingozzi. “Quality of service support in
IEEE 802.16 Networks”, University of Pisa Carl Eklund, Nokia Research
Center,March/April 2006, Page(s) 50-55

[5] A. Safak, B. Preveze. “Analysis of Delay factors for Voice over WiMax”, Computer
and Information Sciences, 2008.ISCIS’08. 23rd International Symposium; 27-29 October
2008. Page(s):1-6, Digital object identifier 10.1109/ISCIS.2008.4717927

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[6] Kevin Chaplin, B.Sc (Eng.), “Wireless Network Technologies”, White Paper,
Application Note: 2130209, Sierra Wireless, Inc. 8th July 2002,

[7] V. Sharma, A. A Kumar, S.R Sandeep, M.S Sankaran: “Providing QoS to Real and
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[8] “WiMax- Copper in the Air”, White Paper, April 2006, With WiMax the foundation
for standardized interoperable BWA (Broadband wireless access),
www.caltelassn.com/Reports06/Broadband/ericsson_wimax.pdf

[9] J. Freitag, N. L. S. da Fonseca: “Uplink Scheduling with Quality of service in IEEE

802.16 Networks”, Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBCOM’07.
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[10] Pratik Dhrona, Najah Abu Ali, Hossam Hassanein: “ A Performance Study of
Scheduling algorithms in Point-to-Multipoint wiMax Networks”, 33rd IEEE
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10.1109/LCN.2008.4664291

[11] C. Cicconetti, A. Erta, L. Lenzini, E. Mingozzi, “Performance Evaluation of the

IEEE 802.16 MAC for QoS Support”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 6,
jan 2007 Page(s): 26-38, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TMC.2007.250669

[12] Guosong Chu, Deng Wang, Mei Shunliang : “ A QoS architecture for the MAC
protocol of IEEE 802.16 BWA system”, IEEE 2002 International Conference on
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Page(s):435-439, Vol. 1.

[13] H. Fattah, C. Leung, “An overview of scheduling algorithms in wireless

multimedia networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, OCT 2002, Page(s) 76-83, Vol.
2, no. 5

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