Relay Station Location Planning for IEEE 802.16 Multi-hop Relay Networks

• Main Authors: Chao-Wen Lee, 李昭玟
• Other Authors: Jeng-Farn Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07202377621606680680

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 100 === IEEE 802.16 WiMAX has the characteristics of high transmission rate and long-distance transmission range. However, the users blocked by the shelter or at the edge of coverage range suffer from the poor signal quality which leads to low data rate. Thus, IEEE 802.16j has introduced the relay stations to help forward data. The relay stations can enhance the network throughput, extend the coverage range and low cost. So, deploying the relay stations can improve the drawbacks of the WiMAX. The locations the relay stations were deployed are different, the network performance are also different. Therefore, the relay station location planning is an important issue. In this paper, we study the problem of the relay station location planning in multi-hop relay. Our goal is to deploy the minimum number of relay stations to serve all the users and connect to base station in multi-hop relay. We have to propose an efficient algorithm to solve this problem because this problem is belong to NP-complete. We propose two heuristic algorithms called RSL and ERSL including layer 1 and upper layer to solve this problem.