Deployment and radio resource reuse in IEEE 802.16j multi-hop relay network in Manhattan-like environment

• Published in: 2007 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: I-Kang Fu, Wern-Ho Sheen, Fang-Ching Ren
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2007
• Subjects: Base stations; Costs; Hardware; IEEE 802.16j; Interference; Multi-hop Relay; Radio link; Radio Resource Reuse; Relays; Repeaters; Signal to noise ratio; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput
• ISBN: 1424409829; 9781424409822
• DOI: 10.1109/ICICS.2007.4449752

IEEE 802.16j is an amendment to the IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard to enable the operation of multi-hop relay stations (RS). It aims to enhance the coverage, per user throughput and system capacity of IEEE 802.16e. Compared with base station (BS), RS does not need a wire-line backhaul and has much lower hardware complexity. Using RSs can significantly reduce the deployment cost of the system. In this paper, the RS deployment and radio-resource reuse strategies for IEEE 802.16j multi-hop relay (MR) networks are investigated. Simulation results show that the per-user throughput and system capacity of IEEE 802.16j MR network can be substantially improved by the proposed method.