This article proposes a new architecture, which once implemented, would help in achieving end-to-end quality of service (QoS) requirements of an application which is being served in an interworking system of IEEE 802.16/WiMAX and IEEE 802.11e/WiFi networks. Our approach strives at mapping the QoS requirements of an application originating in IEEE 802.11e network to a serving IEEE 802.16 network and assuring the transfer of data having appropriate QoS back to the application in IEEE 802.11e network. We discuss how an application flow specifies its QoS requirements, either in an IEEE 802.11e or IEEE 802.16 network and the mechanisms that ensure that these requirements are known to the serving network. We identify the necessary parameters, as per advice in the standards, that could stipulate the QoS requirements for an application depending upon traffic type it represents. We propose the mapping of various parameters for different kinds of flows which would ultimately make sure that an application receives the QoS it requested. The resulting architecture would work as a hybrid of two different kinds of networks.
This paper addresses the issue of multiservice support in IEEE 802.16 or WiMAX networks. The capacity for supporting multiple service classes is indeed important for any access technology where bandwidth is limited, which is the case for IEEE 802.16. The standard currently proposes four traffic classes, and specifies that for uplink traffic, the first one (UGS) receives periodic grants whereas the other three are served via polling. Supporting two different scheduling mechanisms may have a significant impact on the complexity of Network Interface Cards, and therefore on the CAPEX for WiMAX networks. Based on this analysis, the present work investigates whether a 802.16 network that only supports the 3 polling based classes is still capable of providing the QoS levels expected for all types of applications. Both the transfer plane QoS, in terms of latency and jitter, and the command plane QoS, in terms of blocking probability are assessed. In particular, a simple, multiservice call admission control (CAC) mechanism is proposed that significantly improves on a previously proposed CAC mechanism by favouring real time traffic over non real time traffic. The outcome of this study shows that it is indeed possible to support stringent QoS with only polling based traffic classes, and fairly simple traffic engineering mechanisms fully described in the paper.
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