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WiMAX and 802.16e: Broadband Wireless Standards™

  • Course Name: WiMAX and 802.16e: Broadband Wireless Standards™
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Technical Level: 2

Programme

Overview of Broadband Wireless Markets, Applications, and Requirements
  • Line of Sight vs Non-Line-of-Sight
  • Mobility
  • Advanced Antenna Systems
  • Quality of Service
  • The role of the WiMAX Forum
802.16 High-level Architecture
  • Physical Architecture
  • Protocol Architecture
  • Time Slots and Time Division Multiple Access
  • Uplink and Downlink Channel Descriptors and Maps
  • Time Division Duplex and Frequency
  • Division Duplex Options
  • Which Implementation Options are most common?
802.16 Medium Access Control
  • Steps for Joining an 802.16 network
  • Addressing and Encapsulation
  • Bandwidth Requests and Allocation
  • Automatic repeat request (ARQ)
  • Security
  • Quality of Service Scheduling Rules
  • MAC enhancements for advanced antenna systems
802.16 Physical Layer
  • Why are there so many PHY options?
  • Multipath: Why multi-carrier approaches?
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Multi-carrier OFDM for 2-to-11 GHz
  • Licensed Operation
  • Multi-carrier OFDM for 2-to-11 GHz
  • Unlicensed Operation
  • Digital Signal Processing algorithms beyond the standard
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access
  • (OFDMA) for licensed and unlicensed use
Mobility extensions from 802.16e
  • 802.16e adoption forecast
  • 802.16e MAC and PHY enhancements
  • Scalable OFDMA
  • Handover
  • Cell Selection
Options for 802.16 Implementers
  • Advanced antenna systems
  • Coexistence problems and specifications
WiMAX Profiles
  • WiMAX Forum Certification