Radio/Wireless

WiMax Base Station Development

Abstract: HSC designed and developed WiMax MAC SW for a leading WiMax chipset OEM. MAC Layer based on 802.16e standard was designed to support 10Mbps in Downlink and 4Mbps in Uplink per MS.

Customer Benefits:

  • Modular design with rich, defined interfaces
    • Easy extensibility for features
    • Independence of design and testing
  • Development of Simulators to aid feature testing
  • Development of generic Data Path Framework which can be reused by Customer
Salient features of the project were:
  • Optimized for high-throughput and efficiency
    • Optimal mating with the IP stack
    • Zero buffer copy
    • Decoupled data path and control plane
    • HSC proprietary algorithms for frame-building and scheduling
  • Speed up of time critical control plane functions
    • Optimal power control in real-time
    • Measurement scheduling
    • DCD/UCD transition scheduling
  • Built using Linux Kernel

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