Fundamentals of WiMAX: Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking

[jonas ribeiro]

The Definitive Guide to WiMAX Technology

WiMAX is the most promising new technology for broadband wireless access to IP services. It can serve an extraordinary range of applications and environments: data, voice, and multimedia; fixed and mobile; licensed and unlicensed. However, until now, wireless professionals have had little reliable information to guide them. Fundamentals of WiMAX is the first comprehensive guide to WiMAX–its technical foundations, features, and performance.

Three leading wireless experts systematically cut through the hype surrounding WiMAX and illuminate the realities. They combine complete information for wireless professionals and basic, accessible knowledge for non-experts. Professionals will especially appreciate their detailed discussion of the performance of WiMAX based on comprehensive link- and system-level simulations.

Whether you're a wireless engineer, network architect, manager, or system designer, this book delivers essential information for succeeding with WiMAX–from planning through deployment.

Topics include

• Applications, history, spectrum options, technical and business challenges, and competitive technologies of WiMAX

• 802.16 standards: physical and MAC layers, channel access, scheduling services, mobility, advanced antenna features, hybrid-ARQ, and more

• Broadband wireless channels: pathloss, shadowing, cellular systems, sectoring, and fading–including modeling and mitigation

• OFDM: from basic multicarrier concepts to synchronization, PAR reduction, and clipping

• MIMO: Multiple antennas, spatial diversity, beamforming, and a cutting-edge treatment of the use of MIMO in WiMAX

• OFDMA: multiple access, multiuser diversity, adaptive modulation, and resource allocation

• Networking and services aspects: architecture and protocols for IP QoS, session management, ecurity, and mobility management

• Predicting performance using link-level and system-level simulations

• WiMAX network architecture: design principles, reference models, authentication, QoS, and mobility management

Foreword 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 
About the Authors 

Part I Overview of WiMAX
Chapter 1 Introduction to Broadband Wireless
Chapter 2 Overview of WiMAX

Part II Technical Foundations of WiMAX
Chapter 3 The Challenge of Broadband Wireless Channels
Chapter 4 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Chapter 5 Multiple-Antenna Techniques
Chapter 6 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
Chapter 7 Networking and Services Aspects of Broadband Wireless

Part III Understanding WiMAX and Its Performance 
Chapter 8 PHY Layer of WiMAX
Chapter 9 MAC Layer of WiMAX
Chapter 10 WiMAX Network Architecture
Chapter 11 Link-Level Performance of WiMAX
Chapter 12 System-Level Performance of WiMAX

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (March 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132225522
• ISBN-13: 978-0132225526
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches

[jonas ribeiro]