Link Adaptation Thresholds for the IEEE 802.16 Base Station

Oleksandr Puchko; Vitaliy Tykhomyrov; Henrik Martikainen

Research Article

Link Adaptation Thresholds for the IEEE 802.16 Base Station

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2008.4369,
    author={Oleksandr Puchko and Vitaliy Tykhomyrov and Henrik Martikainen},
    title={Link Adaptation Thresholds for the IEEE 802.16 Base Station},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on NS-2},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={WNS2},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={IEEE 802.16 AMC ARQ HARQ NS-2.},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2008.4369}
}

Oleksandr Puchko
Vitaliy Tykhomyrov
Henrik Martikainen
Year: 2010
Link Adaptation Thresholds for the IEEE 802.16 Base Station
WNS2
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2008.4369

Oleksandr Puchko¹^,*, Vitaliy Tykhomyrov¹^,*, Henrik Martikainen¹^,*

1: Telecommunication laboratory, MIT department, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

*Contact email: olpuehko@jyu.fi, vitykhom@jyu.fi, henrik.martikainen@jyu.fi

Abstract

The IEEE 802.16 technology defines a number of modulation and coding schemes that the base station can use to achieve the best tradeoff between the spectrum efficiency and the resulting application level throughput. However, the 802.16 specification does not define any particular link level adaptation algorithm, neither does it specify the SNR thresholds to switch between modulation and coding schemes. In this paper we consider a link adaptation model and conduct a number of simulation runs to find transition thresholds for ARQ and HARQ retransmission mechanisms. All the simulations are done with the 802.16 extension for the NS-2 simulator.

Keywords: IEEE 802.16 AMC ARQ HARQ NS-2.

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2008.4369