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drive. Achieving high system throughput in these networks is challenging due to&#xd;
interference which limits concurrent transmissions. In this thesis, we study routing and link&#xd;
scheduling inWiMAX mesh networks. We present simple joint routing and link scheduling&#xd;
algorithms that have outperformed most of the existing proposals in our experiments. Our&#xd;
session based routing and links scheduling produced results approximately 90% of a trivial&#xd;
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We also study the problem of quality of service (QoS) provisioning in WiMAX mesh&#xd;
networks. QoS has become an attractive area of study driven by the increasing demand&#xd;
for multimedia content delivered wirelessly. To accommodate the different applications,&#xd;
the IEEE 802.16 standard defines four classes of service. In this dissertation, we propose a&#xd;
comprehensive scheme consisting of routing, link scheduling, call admission control (CAC)&#xd;
and channel assignment that considers all classes of service. Much of the work in the&#xd;
literature considers each of these problems in isolation. Our routing schemes use a metric&#xd;
that combines interference and traffic load to compute routes for requests while our link&#xd;
scheduling ensures that the QoS requirements of admitted requests are strictly met. Results&#xd;
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