Performance Evaluation of a WiMAX Testbed under VoIP Traffic
ABSTRACT
Among several first mile solutions proposed so far, the key advan¬tage of the IEEE 802.16 standard, widely known as WiMAX, is to ensure large area coverage and rather inexpensive equipment at the subscriber side. Modern requirements to wireless connectivity include mandatory QoS guarantees for a wide set of real-time appli¬cations: this is the case of the ever growing trend of VoIP calls. To this aim, WiMAX supports natively real-time traffic. In this paper, we report on the results of measurements performed on a WiMAX Alvarion testbed, located in Turin, Italy. In particular, through syn¬thetic VoIP traffic generation, we obtained the corresponding E- model figures, thus tracing the system operation intervals.
Categories and Subject Descriptors
C.2.1 [COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS]:
Network Architecture and Design
General Terms
Experimentation, Measurement, Performance
Keywords
WiMAX, IEEE 802.16, Quality-of-Service, VoIP
1. INTRODUCTION
As multimedia services gain momentum, new broadband access technologies emerge to address the specific requirements of such services. To this purpose, there exist several traditional first mile solutions, leveraging cables or fibers, and a novel family of Broad¬band Wireless Access (BWA) technologies. Among BWA tech¬nologies, the IEEE 802.16 standard [1] is considered the leading technology for the provision of Internet-based broadband services in wide
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