Abstract

Two different relay modes are defined in IEEE 802.16j WIMAX standard: transparent mode and non-transparent mode. IEEE 802.16j standard supports mobile station mobility; it defines three kinds of hand over mechanism: hard handover, macro diversity handover (MDHO) and fast BS switching (FBSS)

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