Research Article

Bandwidth Allocation Based on Traffic Load and Interference in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks

Table 1

Simulation settings.

Number of nodes 25
Area size 500 × 500
Mac
Radio range250 m
Simulation time 100 sec
Traffic sourceVoIP and VoD
VoD packet size500 to 1500 bytes
VoD rate100 Kb
VoIP Codec GSM.AMR
Number of VoIP frames per packet2
Number of traffic flows1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Topology typeRing
OFDM bandwidth10 MHz
Rate500 Kb