Performance of an IEEE 802.16 Wireless Backhaul in the Presence of a Node Failure

A wireless backhaul network is used to interconnect intermediate nodes to gateway nodes. As it is designed to serve a large population of broadband users, failure sustainability becomes an essential requirement to ensure uninterrupted telecommunication services even in the presence of occasional nod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chai, Pey San Nancy, Chung, Kah-Seng, Chan, King-Sun
Other Authors: ICCS 2010 Technical Program Committee
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE (Catalog Number: CFP10806-CDR) 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43776
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Summary:A wireless backhaul network is used to interconnect intermediate nodes to gateway nodes. As it is designed to serve a large population of broadband users, failure sustainability becomes an essential requirement to ensure uninterrupted telecommunication services even in the presence of occasional node or link failures. In this paper, the performance of a failure sustainable wireless backhaul, based on IEEE 802.16 radio technology, is analysed in the presence of a node failure. Furthermore, it is shown that the network performance is significantly improved by incorporating two proposed modifications, namely request-resend and dynamic mini-slot allocation, in IEEE 802.16 standard coordinated distributed scheduling.