QoS management and control for an all-IP WiMAX network architecture: Design, implementation and evaluation

The IEEE 802.16 standard provides a specification for a fixed and mobile broadband wireless access system, offering high data rate transmission of multimedia services with different Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements through the air interface. The WiMAX Forum, going beyond the air interface, defined an end-to-end WiMAX network architecture, based on an all-IP platform in order to complete the standards required for a commercial rollout of WiMAX as broadband wireless access solution. As the WiMAX network architecture is only a functional specification, this paper focuses on an innovative solution for an end-to-end WiMAX network architecture offering in compliance with the WiMAX Forum specification. To our best knowledge, this is the first WiMAX architecture built by a research consortium globally and was performed within the framework of the European IST project WEIRD (WiMAX Extension to Isolated Research Data networks). One of the principal features of our architecture is support fo...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: MIS
• Authors: Thomas Michael Bohnert, Marco Castrucci, Nicola Ciulli, Giada Landi, Ilaria Marchetti, Cristina Nardini, Bruno Sousa, Pedro Neves, Paulo Simoes
• Keywords: End-to-end Wimax Network, MIS 2008, Multimedia, WiMAX, WiMAX Network Architecture