Planning and Design of Fixed Wimax Network for University of Al Fashir
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بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم Alneelain University College of Graduate Studies Faculty of Engineering Department of Communication Engineering A Thesis submitted as partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of Master of Science in Mobile Communication Planning and Design of Fixed WiMAX Network for University of Al Fashir Prepared by: Leila Omer Adam Ahmed Supervised By: Dr. Ibrahim Elimam Abdalla January 2019 بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم اﻵيـــــــــــــــــــة ه ه ُ ْ ْ يَ ْر َفعِ هّللاُ ال ِذي َن آَ َمنُوا ِم ْن ُك ْم َوال ِذي َن أوتُوا ال ِعل َم َد َر َجا ٍت صدق هللا العظيم )سورة المجادلة ,آية رقم 11 ( I DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this thesis to my Mother (Habeba Alhaj) With all my love………………. And To the soul of my father II ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First, I want to thanks God for giving me the strength and health to accomplish successfully this master thesis. I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to my supervisor Dr.Ibrahim El imam Abdalla for his help and encouragement and for supporting me during my whole trip in writing my thesis starting from deciding the topic and finding out the main contribution points till submitting my thesis. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you all and I am so proud to deal with you. I would like to thank the best Mother in the world, who made this all possible and gave me wings when I needed it most and for having faith in me and keeping me positive all the way. I will not forget my family (my brothers and my sisters). Seriously, without them I wouldn’t have achieved any success. Many thanks to all my friends for their help and emotional support, Thank you for everything. Last I would like to thank all the people who have helped me make this thesis possible. Leila Omer, January 2019 III Abstract WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is the most new technology among all the next wireless technologies to connect to the Internet. With this technology, the user will be able to access the Internet at home or away from home without wires, and companies can cover entire cities by broadcasting the Internet completely. This research provides a brief overview of WiMAX technology, and the planning of Fixed WiMAX network for a specific study area (Al Fashir University), for a set of different user profiles, different services and requirements, and different scenarios, and explains the simulation and analysis of WiMAX using OPNET modular as a tool of planning because it enables the user to manage the design to better fit for the deployment needs, whether the desired design should have better coverage area or better capacity. The research includes planning a fixed WiMAX network for Al-Fashir University with two different scenarios, taking into account the services that are required to be provided in this network. The services and requirements are fixed for the two scenarios while they differ in the coverage area of the network. The results show that while, in the first scenario, the coverage area of the antenna (cell area) is comparatively small, the send and receive of the power signal will be strong, the delay is less, the more successful accurate data received and delivered and the better the services provided to the users, that is why scenario one is the best in the services compared to scenario two. IV المستخلص تعتبر تقنية الواي ماكس WiMAX، التقنية اﻷكثر نضجاً من بين كل التقنيات الﻻسلكية المقبلة لﻻتصال باﻹنترنت ، في ظل تطبيق هذه التقنية سيتمكن المستخدم من الدخول إلى اﻹنترنت في منزله أو خارج منزله و بدون أية أسﻻك، كما يمكن للشركات تغطية مدن بأكملها ببث اﻹنترنت تماماً كبث الراديو أو الجوال. يقدم هذا البحث نظرة عامة موجزة عن تقنية WiMAX ، و شرحاً عن الخطوات التي يجب أخذها بعين اﻻعتبار من أجل تخطيط شبكة WiMAX ثابتة لمنطقة معينة )جامعة الفاشر( ، لمجموعة من التشكيﻻت المختلفة للمستخدم ، والخدمات والمتطلبات المختلفة ، وسيناريوهات مختلفة ، ويشرح المحاكاة والتحليل من WiMAX باستخدام برنامج الـــــ OPNET كأداة للتخطيط والمحاكاة ﻷنها تمكن المستخدم من اتخاذ الحل المناسب ﻻحتياجات التنفيذ والتطوير ، سواء كان الحل المطلوب منطقة تغطية أفضل أو قدرة أفضل، ويتضمن البحث تخطيط لشبكة WiMAX ثابتة لجامعة الفاشر بعمل سناريوهين مختلفين مع اﻻخذ باﻹعتبار الخدمات المراد تقديمها بهذة الشبكة حيث كانت الخدمات والمتطلبات ثابتة للسناريوهين بينما يختلفان في مساحة التغطية للشبكة. ومن النتائج تحصلنا علي انه )السيناريو اﻻول( كلما كانت مساحة التغطية للهوائي ) مساحة الخلية ( صغيرة نسبياً كلما كانت قوة اﻻشارة المرسلة والمستقبلة اقوي وكذالك التأخير أقل ونسبة البيانات المستقبلة بصورة صحيحة اكثر وكذلك بعض الخدمات المقدمة للمستخدمين تكون افضل منها عندما تكون مساحة التغطية اكبر لذلك وجد ان السناريو اﻻول افضل في الخدمات من السيناريو الثاني. TABLE OF CONTENTS NO Title Page NO I اﻻية Dedication II Acknowledgement III Abstract (EN) IV V مستخلص )عربي( V Table Of Contents VI List Of figures VIII List Of Table IX List of Abbreviations X Chapter One : Introduction 1- 1 Introduction 1 1-2 Motivation for the Thesis 2 1-3 Problem Definition 2 1-4 Research Objectives 2 1-5 Why WiMAX 3 1-6 Research Methodology 3 1-7 Thesis Layout 3 Chapter Two: Overview of Wireless Communications 2-1 Introduction 4 2-2 Features of Wireless Communication 4 2-3 Wireless Communication Advantages 5 2-4 Classification of Wireless Communications 6 2-5 The Generations Of Wireless Communication 7 2-5-1 Zero Generation (0G – 0.5G) 7 2-5-2 First Generation (1G) 7 2-5-3 Second Generation (2G -2.5G -2.75G) 8 2-5-4 Third Generation (3G) 9 2-5-5 Fourth Generation (4G) 10 2-5-6 Fifth Generation (5G) 11 LTE vs. WiMAX(4th generation telecommunication networks) 12 2-6 WiMAX 13 2-6-1 Advantages Of WiMAX Technology 12 2-6-2 WiMAX Applications 16 2-6-3 WiMAX Services 17 2-6-4 WiMAX Architecture 19 2-6-5 WiMAX Framework 22 2-6-6 WiMAX standards & Specifications 23 2-6-7 Types of WiMAX Technology (802.16) 24 2-6-7-1 Fixed WiMAX 25 2-6-7-2 Mobile WiMAX 25 2-6-8 WiMAX Physical Layer 27 2-6-9 WiMAX MAC layer 28 2-6-10 WiMAX Quality of Service (QoS) Definitions 28 2-7 LTE(Long-Term Evolution) 29 VI 2-8 Related Works 32 Chapter Three: Modeling and Simulation 3-1 Introduction (Network Simulation Overview) 34 3-2 OPNET Modeler (Simulation Tool) 34 3-3 Network Architecture 35 3-3-1 The area under study 35 3-3-2 The Capacity and Applications and Services of the Network 36 3-4 The Model and the Simulation 36 3-4-1 OPNET Models used in the Network Simulation 37 3-4-2 Simulation scenarios 37 3-4-3 Parameter Setup 39 Chapter Four: Results and Discussion 4-1 Performance Metrics And Simulation Result 45 4-1-1 The WiMAX metrics 45 4-2 The Services metrics 50 Chapter Five: Conclusion 5-1 Conclusion 60 5-2 Suggested Future Work 61 5-4 References 62 LIST OF FIGURES F. No Figure Title Page No 2-1 Shows a Simplified Wireless Communication System Representation 6 2-2 WiMAX applications 17 2-3 WiMAX Network Architecture 21 2-4 WiMAX Network Reference Model 22 2-5 WiMAX Standards 24 2-6 the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Architecture 30 VII 3-1 Map of the area under the study 35 3-2 Basic steps for creating network simulation 36 3-3 scenario number one(Al Fashir university as a cell ) 38 3-4 scenario number two(Al Fashir university as subnet inside the cell) 39 3-5 WiMAX configuration attributes 40 3-6 WiMAX Application configuration 41 3-7 WiMAX profile configurations with Application 42 3-8 WiMAX subscriber station parameters 43 3-9 WiMAX Antenna Attributes 44 4-1 the average delay of scenario one(A) and scenario two(B) 45 4-2 The average delay comparison between the two scenarios 46 4-3 the average throughput of scenario one and scenario two 47 4-4 the average throughput comparison between the two scenarios 48 4-5 the average load of scenario one and scenario two 48 4-6 The average load comparison between the two scenarios 49 4-7 average in HTTP Object Response Time the two scenarios 50 4-8 average in HTTP traffic sent in the two scenarios 51 4-9 average in HTTP traffic Received in the two scenarios 51 4-10 average in HTTP sent comparison between the two scenarios 52 4-11 average in FTP Download and Upload Response in scenario two 53 4-12 average in FTP traffic Received in the two scenarios 54 4-13 average in FTP traffic sent in the two scenarios 54 4-14 average in Email Download and Upload Response scenario two 55 4-15 average in Email traffic Received in the two scenarios 56 4-16 average in Email traffic sent in the two scenarios 56 4-17 average in DB query Response time in the scenario two 57 4-18 average in DB query and entry traffic Received in the two scenarios 58 4-19 average in DB query and entry traffic sent in the two scenarios 58 LIST OF TABLES T. No Table Title Page No 2-1 Types of Access to a WiMAX Network 26 2-2 WiMAX QoS classes and their Applications and Specification 28 2-3 the differences between LTE and WiMAX 30 3-1 OPNET components used in this project 37 3-2 simulation parameters 44 VIII LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1G First Generation 2G Second Generation 3G Third Generation 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project AMPS Advance Mobile Phone Service ASN Access Service Network IX ASP Application Service Providers BE Best Effort services BS Base Station BWA Broadband Wireless Access BTS Base Transition station CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CSN Connectivity Service Network DSL Digital Subscriber Line EDRGE Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution ETACS Extended Total Access Communication System FDD Frequency Division Duplexing FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access GPRS General Packet Radio Service GSM Global System for Mobile Communications HCMTS High Capacity Mobile Telephone System HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access HSPA High-Speed Packet Access IMTS Improved