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Performance Evaluation of Point-to-Multi-Point (PMP) and Mesh Air-Interface in IEEE Standard 802.16a
Overview Broadband wireless access has gained a lot of attention during the last years. At the same time multi-hop communication is expected to become a major technology in systems beyond 3G. The IEEE standard 802.16a provides both high speed wireless access and multi-hop capabilities through the two air-interfaces that are investigated in this paper: Point-to-Multi-Point (PMP) and Mesh mode. The Mesh mode already supports multi-hop communications, so the design of PMP has been extended in order to adapt this air-interface to support multi-hop. In this paper the performances of Mesh and PMP mode are compared by means of an analytical evaluation of the efficiency, or equivalently the overhead introduced by the MAC layer protocol.
| Publisher | Siemens | File Format | |
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| Date Published | July 2004 | Downloads | 391 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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