Research Article

Capacity Evaluation for IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX

Table 4

Mobile WiMAX system configurations.

Configurations Downlink Uplink

DL and UL symbols excluding preamble 28 18
Ranging, CQI, and ACK (symbols columns) N/A 3
number of symbol columns per Cluster/Tile 2 3
number of subcarriers per Cluster/Tile 14 4
Symbols × Subcarriers per Cluster/Tile 28 12
Symbols × Data Subcarriers per Cluster/Tile 24 8
number of pilots per Cluster/Tile 4 4
number of Clusters/number Tiles per Slot 2 6
Subcarriers × Symbols per Slot 56 72
Data Subcarriers × Symbols per Slot 48 48
Data Subcarriers × Symbols per DL and UL Subframe 23,520 12,600
Number of Slots 420 175