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This course will provide the student with broad knowledge on current WiMAX and
802.16 standards, trends, issues and technologies. It compares BWA technologies
to WiMAX and studies issues regarding WiMAX as a Broadband Wireless Access
Technology. Techno-economics of WiMAX as a BWA solution is also included, as
well as the principles of network planning together with planning examples
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- Overview of Broadband Wireless Markets, Applications, and Requirements
- WiMAX vision and requirements
- Architecture of a broadband wireless access network
- The role of IEEE, ETSI, WiMAX Forum™
- WiMAX profiles and certification
- WiMAX Compared with other BWA technologies
- WiMAX status and roadmap
- WiMAX and 802.16 High-level Architecture
- The WiMAX network architecture
- Physical Architecture, Protocol Architecture
- 802.16 Physical Layer Options
- Why are there so many PHY options?
- PHY basic building blocks and frame structure
- The wireless channel: fading, flat and selective
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and OFDMA
- Spatial techniques and their role (adaptive arrays, MIMO)
- 802.16 Medium Access Control
- MAC structure
- QoS support
- Bandwidth request
- Network entry process
- Security
- Handover procedure
- Network Planning
- The network planning process
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- 802.16 Physical Layer
- The Selectable OFDMA PHY layer
- HARQ
- Spatial techniques implementation in 802.16
- Bit rate for different modes
- 802.16 MAC Layer
- The MAC PDU structure and types
- MAC messages
- Data handling (fragmentation, packing, concatenation, managing ACKs)
- Sleep and Idle modes
- The multicast and broadcast service
- WiMAX and BWA Network Planning
- Propagation, fading and Channel Models
- Range Limited vs. Capacity Limited planning
- Site configuration
- Frequency Planning and Re-use factor, FUSC and PUSC
- System capacity and dimensioning
- Applications and Market Analysis
- Applications of fixed and mobile WiMAX
- Business case study for developed and emerging markets Urban area step-by-step planning
- WiMAX Evolution Path
- Policies and procedures for operation in unlicensed bands
- Multi-hop relays
- WiMAX development towards IMT-Advanced
- Conclusion
- Glossary
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- Technical Managers, wanting a good understanding of the challenges and tradeoffs
of WiMAX as a BWA technology
- Development Engineers requiring a good end-to-end introduction to the operation of WiMAX network
- Radio Network Engineers
- System and R&D Engineers aiming to be familiar with the network planning and deployment aspects of wireless networks
- Anyone who needs to know about WiMAX, how it works and how it is deployed.
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