Abstract
IEEE 802.16 standard was designed to support the bandwidth demanding applications with quality of service (QoS). Bandwidth is reserved for each application to ensure the QoS. For variable bit rate (VBR) applications, however, it is difficult for the subscriber station (SS) to predict the amount of incoming data. To ensure the QoS guaranteed services, the SS may reserve more bandwidth than its demand. As a result, the reserved bandwidth may not be fully utilized all the time.
Description of Bandwidth Recycling
In this paper, we propose a scheme, named Bandwidth Recycling , to recycle the unused bandwidth without changing the existing bandwidth reservation. The idea of the proposed scheme is to allow other SSs to utilize the unused bandwidth when it is available. Thus, the system throughput can be improved while maintaining the same QoS guaranteed services. Mathematical analysis and simulation are used to evaluate the proposed scheme. Simulation and analysis results confirm that the proposed scheme can recycle 35% of unused bandwidth on average. By analyzing factors affecting the recycling performance, three scheduling algorithms are proposed to improve the overall throughput. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm improves the overall throughput by 40% in a steady network.
Algorithm:
Dynamic bandwidth request-allocation algorithm and Priority-based Scheduling Algorithm
A dynamic bandwidth request-allocation algorithm for real-time services is proposed in . The authors predict the amount of bandwidth to be requested based on the information of the backlogged amount of traffic in the queue and the rate mismatch between packet arrival and service rate to improve the bandwidth utilization. The research works listed above improve the performance by predicting the traffic coming in the future. Instead of prediction, our scheme can allow SSs to accurately identify the portion of unused bandwidth and provides a method to recycle the unused bandwidth. It can improve the utilization of bandwidth while keeping the same QoS guaranteed services and introducing no extra delay.
Proposed System:
• The IEEE 802.16 network is connection-oriented. It gives the advantage of having better control over network resource to provide QoS guaranteed services
• To improve the bandwidth utilization while maintaining the same QoS guaranteed services, our research objective is two fold:
• the existing bandwidth reservation is not changed to maintain the same QoS guaranteed services.
