Poulomi Das, Siladitya Sen, Arindam Banerjee, Heritage Institute of Technology, India

To provide uninterrupted service to all subscribers in a wireless network, we need to incorporate a low cost, flexible Heterogeneous network which will be able to link with any kind of network for efficient spectrum utilization, hence improved system capacity. In this connection, Wi-Fi/ Wi MAX integrated network seems to be an ideal solution as it is able to provide easy deployment, high speed data rate and wide range coverage with high throughput, low end to end delay, flat and low jitter. Wi-Fi/ WiMAX integrated network provides Quality of Service (QoS) that can support all kinds of real-time application in wireless networks that includes priority scheduling and queuing for bandwidth allocation that is based on traffic scheduling algorithms within wireless networks. In this paper, we have designed a Wi-Fi/ WiMAX integrated network and analyze the performance of different scheduling algorithms for that integrated network and highlight our findings on the scheduling algorithm which will give the best performance for a heterogeneous network.

Wi-Fi, WiMAX, QoS, Scheduling