Spatio-temporal Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Wireless Broadband Access

In this research, we use the IEEE 802.16 standard as a backhaul communication technology for broadband wireless access to railway systems. The proposed architecture uses relay elements located in the vicinity of train track to repeat the signal between the base station and the mobile vehicle. The signal transmitted from the base station is received by repeaters and relayed to the train, and vice versa. We propose spatio-temporal scheduling as a means to increase downlink throughput. The proposed spatio-temporal scheduler distributes data traffic among the repeaters in the vicinity of the train and on the route of the train. Simulation results show that a substantial improvement on throughput can be obtained when data traffic is scheduled in both temporal and spatial dimensions.