Research Article

Simulation of 802.21 Handovers Using ns-2

Table 3

Simulation parameters.

Number of mobile nodesBetween 1 and 100

Mobile movementRectilinear movement at 50 Km/h

Propagation channel modelTwo-Ray Ground

Wired linksAll wired links support 1 Gbps

Traffic parametersUDP, constant bit rate at (Kbps) 50, 100, 200, 300, 500, and 1000.

WiMAX coverage500 m

WiMAX parametersTechnology: 16QAM (10 Mbps)
BS Tx power: 15 W (41 dBm) @ 3.5 GHz
RX Thresh_: 1.215 e-9 W (~−60 dBm)
CSTresh_: Level 80% of RX Thresh_

Wi-Fi coverage100 m

Wi-Fi parametersTechnology: 802.11 b (11 Mbps)
AP Tx power: 100 mW (20 dBm) @ 2.417 GHz
RX Thresh: 0,989 e-9 W (~−60 dBm)
CSThresh_: Level 90% of RX Thresh_
pr_limit_: 1.2