On capacity of OFDMA-based IEEE802.16 WiMAX including Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) and inter-cell interference

Abstract

We study in this paper the capacity of the downlink of OFDMA-based IEEE802.16 WiMAX system in the presence of two types of traffic, streaming and elastic. We focus in particular on the impact of Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) as well as inter-cell interference resulting from different frequency reuse schemes. Several performance measures, namely blocking rates, mean transfer time and the mean number of collisions between two OFDMA WiMAX cells, are then derived and quantified. We show that reuse partitioning results in a lower blocking probability for streaming flows in the inner region but a much higher one for elastic flows in the outer region; the overall cell throughput increases meaning that the decrease in the number of collisions improves the overall throughput.