WI-MAX NETWORK SIMULATION FOR SALAHADDIN UNIVERSITY NEW CAMPUS

Abstract

Wireless Networks became very important in this latest decade and especially Wi-Max system because of high bit rate, handover flexibility and longer distance of mobility. Signal strength and coverage is one of the challenges for this systems which leads to affect directly on Quality of Service (QoS), this paper is an attempt to design and study of Wi-Max network for a certain coverage area, testing the coverage of the signal for the area that can hold the sufficient amount of data with less latency has been studied depending upon the Wi-Max advanced specification and data stream behavior benefit’s, some Wi-Max parameters like coverage, quality of service, data rate are optimized, the study and design has been done using OPNET modeler used in the a simulation of the certain coverage area, in this paper the new campus of university of Salahaddin has been used on supposed area of about 4 X4 km. The results show a perfect bit rate as a bit stream for the global characteristics in which is sufficient to the students and teachers of the university in addition of providing the mobility by high performance. It is needed to design a wireless computer network to Salahaddin University to improve mobility and to let the teachers and students to stay connected at any time in any university location Especially with the nowadays learning techniques and requirements which needs both teacher and students to be online with each other especially like E-learning and online remount learning especially with the COVID-19 university campus blocking. Therefore, it is needed to cover overall area of the university campus and with additional coverage that exceed the university boundaries to improve the reliability of the hall network and to insure the required coverage area. To do that is very efficient to design an advanced computer network like Wi-Max with the most powerful and advanced hardware capabilities to full-fit the teachers and students requirement of fast net browsing and download in addition in e-learning bases it is very regular to use video conferencing or video streaming which normally needs a very fast network data transfer