Capacity Evaluation for IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX

Table 3

Slot capacity for various MCSs.

MCS	Bits per symbol	Coding Rate	DL bytesper slot	UL bytesper slot
QPSK 1/8	2	0.125	1.5	1.5
QPSK 1/4	2	0.25	3.0	3.0
QPSK 1/2	2	0.50	6.0	6.0
QPSK 3/4	2	0.75	9.0	9.0
QAM-16 1/2	4	0.50	12.0	12.0
QAM-16 2/3	4	0.67	16.0	16.0
QAM-16 3/4	4	0.75	18.0	16.0
QAM-64 1/2	6	0.60	18.0	16.0
QAM-64 2/3	6	0.67	24.0	16.0
QAM-64 3/4	6	0.75	27.0	N/A
QAM-64 5/6	6	0.83	30.0	N/A