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In this work we investigate performance of the medium access control layer of an 802.16 wireless network consisting of 100 subscriber stations (SSs) and a single base stati on (BS). Experimental results show that the average packet queuing delay was virtually the same for weighted round robin and weighted fair queuing scheduling algorithms. Another interesting finding is that adapting the uplink/downlink ratio plays a crucial role in performance as the network load increases and channel conditions change. On the other hand, experiments show that for a higher network load, segmentation of large packets is a necessity in order to achieve performance and QoS conformance. We also observed a smaller average queuing delay for smaller values of frame duration.
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Gusak, O., Oliver, N., Sohraby, K. (2004). Performance Evaluation of the 802.16 Medium Access Control Layer. In: Aykanat, C., Dayar, T., Körpeoğlu, İ. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004. ISCIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30182-0_24
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