Analysis of delay factors for voice over WiMAX

Abstract

This paper presents the results of our computer simulation for delays experienced by voice packets over WiMAX 802.16e protocol running over an enterprise packet network connected to public internet. In the simulation we analyzed the effect of packet size, core network link speed, internet service provider link speed, wireless network link speed, wireless distance, base station range, and distance in internet parameters that effect the amount of delay in a WiMAX embedded IP network. In this study, all the delay parameters are fixed to their default values and current parameter values are changed so that the delay is varied between minimum and maximum values in uniformly distributed 100 steps and the delay is plotted in each step. Total fixed delays can be considered as minimum delay and variable delay corresponds to the maximum delay that can occur under the given conditions. All other fixed and variable delay parameters such as switching delays, packetization delays, contention delays and the delays caused by buffers etc. are also taken into account. The results indicate that among these delays WiMAX base station range and the number of base stations play the most decisive role.