Investigate the Effect of Video Conferencing Traffic on the Performance of ‎WiMAX Technology

Abstract

Abstract: in recent years, WiMAX technology has been wildly used to provide broadband ‎connections to end users. Many modern applications, such as Video conferencing, can be run ‎over this network. Running application soverthe WiMAX platform may decrease its ‎performance. This paper evaluates the influence of Video conference traffic on WiMAX. ‎OPNET is used to carry out the experiment part. Three different types of Video conferencing ‎traffic were simulated. WiMAX delay, load and throughput were measured. The outcome of ‎this research shows that the lowest performance of WiMAX was in the case of Virtual ‎Conference Room traffic, and the best WiMAX performance was under low video traffic.‎