Telemedicine Services over Rural Broadband Wireless Access Technologies: IEEE 802.22/WRAN and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX

With the advent of the wide-spread use of smart phones, video streaming over mobile wireless networks has

suddenly taken a huge surge in recent years. Considering its enormous potential, mobile WiMAX is emerging as

a viable technology for mobile TV which is expected to become of key importance in the future of mobile industry.

In this paper, a simulation performance study of Mobile TV over mobile WiMAX is conducted with different

types of adaptive modulation and coding taking into account key system and environment parameters which

include the variation in the speed of the mobile, path-loss, scheduling service classes with the fixed type of modulations.

Our simulation has been conducted using OPNET simulation. Simulation results show that dynamic

adaptation of modulation and coding schemes based on channel conditions can offer considerably more enhanced

QoS and at the same time reduce the overall bandwidth of the system.