Puttipong Mahasukhon
ABSTRACT
While the development of Mobile WiMAX devices is still an ongoing process, complete and accurate simulations become more important in order to study the performance of Mobile WiMAX based broadband wireless access networks. To further improve network simulation models for Mobile WiMAX, we have theoretically modeled the Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest (HARQ) mechanism and evaluated its performance and accuracy. In this paper, we present the design and implementation methodology of the Mobile WiMAX HARQ simulation model in system-level network simulators in order to gain the benefit of link quality improved by enabling HARQ. Our results show that HARQ achieves higher throughput even at low signal strength which can be considered as non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments. We believe the implementation of HARQ in the network simulation model and its evaluation studies will provide profound understanding to Mobile WiMAX field test studies.
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Index Terms
- Type I HARQ performance modeling and evaluation of mobile WiMAX for network simulators
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