Investigations on heuristic bandwidth request mechanism with signaling analysis for BWA networks

Best effort services in next generation broadband wireless access (BWA) networks would be more interactive and bandwidth demanding. This attracted a substantial amount of researches to focus on contention bandwidth request mechanisms for best effort services. The contention resolution with code division multiple access (CDMA) based mobile assisted truncated binary exponential backoff (C-MAB) suffers low contention efficiency and high access delay due to the nature of accessing mechanism in worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) network that confines the mobile station in estimating the optimum contention window. Further, these performances decrease when transmission failure is modeled with unavailability of bandwidth, collision due to contention, transmission code failure, and channel error. To improve the performances, in this paper, we suggest a contention resolution with CDMA based base station assisted backoff (C-BAB) for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based WiMAX networks. With C-BAB, the base station computes an optimum contention window by accounting average contention window and probability of failure. With a 2.69% additional overhead at the BS, the proposed C-BAB shows a 32.82% increase in contention efficiency and 24.21% decrease in access delay (25% error rate, q = 0.60 and ranging slot = 64) compared to C-MAB.