Comparative Performance Evaluation of TCP Variants in WiMAX (and WLANs) Network Configurations

Table 1

IEEE 802.16 simulation parameters.

WiMAX and OFDM Parameters
Quality of service	Best Effort
Channel bandwidth	7 MHz
Frame duration	5 msec
Modulation and coding	64 QAM 3/4
Cyclic prefix	1/16
Contention size	5
DL : UL ratio	1 : 1, 2 : 1, 3 : 1, 4 : 1, 5 : 1, and 6 : 1
Traffic source and other parameters
TCP versions	New Reno, Vegas, Veno,
	Westwood, and BIC
TCP segment size	1024 bytes
Simulation duration	300 s