What is new?

• Removed or simplified control and management functionalities

  • Dynamic association
  • Handover
  • Bandwidth requests
  • MAPs

• Control and management traffic overhead is modeled as resources not available to user data traffic

• New scheduler

  • Supports multiple QoS classes
  • Supports OFDMA
  • Also used in LTE module, calibrated within the WINNER+ project for IMT-A

• Dynamic segmentation and concatenation

  • DLL-PDUs exactly fit OFDMA phy layer resources => less fragmentation

• Many new probes and reference output to validate correct behavior