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\
|
+ =
(1)
where d is the distance between the subscriber station and the
base station in meters and d
0
= 100m. The other parameters
are given by:
|
.
|
\
|
=
0
4
log 20
d
A
(2)
|
.
|
\
|
=
2
log 6
f
Xf
(3)
|
.
|
\
|
|
.
|
\
|
=
C profile ,
2
log 0 . 20
B and A profile ,
2
log 8 . 10
r
r
h
h
Xh
(4)
b
b
h
c
h b a + = *
. (5)
h
b
is the height of the base station in meters, h
r
is the height
of the subscriber station in meters and f is the frequency in
GHz. The values of a, b, c and s are the following:
Table 1: SUI parameters
Profile A Profile B Profile C
a 4.6 4.0 3.6
b 0.0075 0.0065 0.005
c 12.6 17.1 20
s 8.2 8.2 8.2
The maximum achievable distance as a function of the
receiver and transmitters parameters, is:
( )
10
) (
0 max
10 .
s Xh Xf A S L G G L P
R R R T T T
d d
+ + + + +
= (6)
where:
P
T
Transmitted power [dBm]
L
T
Transmission losses [dB]
G
T
Gain of transmitting antenna [dBi]
G
R
Receiver antenna gain [dBi]
L
R
Receiver losses [dB]
d
0
Typically 100 [m]
and S
R
is the sensitivity of the receiver, which is given by:
|
.
|
\
|
+ + =
4
3
7
8
log 10 102 f SNR S
R
(7)
where f is the bandwidth in MHz (7 in this study) and SNR is
the signal-noise ratio.
III. NETWORK DESIGN
WiMAX uses adaptive modulation [4], which means that
for the same cell we can have different modulation schemes,
in function of the SNR (E
b
/N
0
):
Table 2: adaptive modulation
Scheme Code rate Minimum SNR (dB)
BPSK 6.4
QPSK
9.4
11.2
16-QAM
16.4
18.2
64-QAM
22.7
24.4
Fig. 1: adaptive modulation[5]
The capacity depends on the modulation scheme, which can
be BPSK (1 bit per symbol), QPSK (2 bits per symbol), 16-
QAM (4 bits per symbol) or 64-QAM (6 bits per symbol). The
first step is to calculate the frequency sampling rate:
BW Fs =
7
8
(8)
where BW is the bandwidth in MHz. Then we must divide Fs
by the FFT size (values are an example for a bandwidth of
7MHz, which corresponds to a FFT size of N=1024):
5 . 7812 = = A
N
Fs
F
(9)
then the useful bit-duration:
s
F
Tb 128
1
=
A
=
(10)
and the total bit-duration:
s
Tb
Tb Ts 132
32
= + =
(11)
Finally, we can calculate the bit-rate:
rate code
Ts
symbol per bits FFT
v _
_ _
4
3
=
(12)
Let us see an example for 64-QAM (6 bits per symbol):
Mbps
s
v 2 . 26
4
3
132
6 1024
4
3
=
=
(13)
From previous equations we obtain the results in Table 3[6].
Another great feature of WiMAX is its QoS. Like other
wireless technologies, WiMAX was built to work with
different types of traffic, some of them requiring more
bandwidth (such as video) and others requiring less bandwidth
(such as e-mail). WiMAX puts a label in data packets, so that
it can manage better the traffic in order to obtain better
performance and offer better QoS[7]. Table 4 displays
WiMAX traffic classes and their characteristics.
Table 3: bit-rates in Mbps
Bandwidth (MHz) FFT BPSK QPSK QPSK 16-QAM 16-QAM 64-QAM 2/3 64-QAM
1.75 128 0.73 1.04 2.18 2.91 4.36 5.94 6.55
3.5 512 1.46 2.91 4.37 5.82 8.73 11.65 13.09
5 512 2.08 4.16 6.23 8.31 12.47 16.62 18.70
7 1024 2.91 5.82 8.73 11.64 17.45 23.75 26.18
10 1024 4.16 8.31 12.47 16.63 24.94 33.25 37.40
20 2048 8.32 16.62 24.94 33.25 49.87 66.49 74.81
With this information together with the results from section
II, we can simulate a WiMAX network for a small city. The
city will be Aveiro, Portugal (15km
2
of more populated area)
and the software used for the simulation will be ATDI
TM
ICS
Telecom