Table of Contents
Next Generation Wireless Technologies: High Throughput WiFi , WiMAX, and UWB
Overview
1. Wireless Networking: Issues and Trends
2. Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
3. Ultra Wideband
4. High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
5. WiMAX Overview
6. WiMAX Technical Details
7. Other Competing Broadband Access Technologies
Pre-Test
Wireless Networking: Trends and Issues
Overview
Billion Dollar Question
Top 10 Recent Networking Developments
2002-2007: Mega-to-Giga Transition
Wireless: History
Cavemen of 2020
Hype Cycles of Technologies
Hype Cycle 2004
Industry Growth: Formula for Success
Telecom Revenue
Wireless Data Connections
Five Wireless Industry Trends
Home Networking Equipment Trends
Cantenna
Global Broadband Wireless Equipment
Broadband Market by Regions
Mobility
Personal Broadband: Fixed vs. Mobile
Voice and Data Revenues (Korea)
Body Area Networks (BANs)
Summary
Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
Wireless Radio Channel
Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
CDMA
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
Spectrum
Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum
DS Spectrum
OFDM
History of OFDM
Advantages of OFDM
OFDM: Design considerations
OFDMA
Scalable OFDMA
Adaptive Antenna System (AAS)
Smart Antennas
MIMO
MIMO
Gigabit Wireless
Shannon's Theorem
Turbo Codes
Space Time Block Codes (STBC)
Software Defined Radio
Summary
Ultra Wideband (UWB)
Overview
Ultra-Wideband
Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
UWB
History of UWB
FCC Rules on UWB
Fractional Bandwidth
UWB Challenges
Advantages of UWB
IEEE 802.15 History
Direct sequence (DS-UWB)
Multi-Band OFDM
Multi-Band OFDM PHY
Applications of UWB
UWB Products
Summary
High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
Overview
Wi-Fi
IEEE 802.11n
11n Technology
Major Components of 11n
IEEE 802.11n Status
Sample IEEE 802.11n Products
Hybrid 802.11 Networks: Issues
Summary
WiMAX Overview
Overview
Broadband Wireless: Tech Challenges
Business Challenges
Prior Broadband Wireless Efforts
MMDS
Broadband Wireless Access
History of WiMAX
IEEE 802.16: Key Features
WiMAX
Duplexing Options
IEEE 802.16 – QoS Classes
Spectrum Options
WiBro
Status of WiMAX
Sample WiMAX Subscriber Stations
Sample WiMAX Base Stations
Summary
WiMAX Technology
Overview
802.16 Standards
IEEE 802.16 PHYs
IEEE 802.16 Activities
IEEE 802.16 PHY: Other Features
Subchannelization
Subcarrier Permutations
WiMAX OFDM Parameters
802.16 Frame Structure
Mobile WiMAX Frame
Frame Structure
Frequency Reuse of 1
Frequency Reuse of 3
Scheduling and Link Adaptation
WiMAX Forum Certification
WiMAX Forum Cert. Profiles: Fixed
WiMAX Cert. Profiles: Mobile
WiMAX AWG Application Classes
Effect of MIMO on Capacity
Effect of Location and Device Type
Effect of Wavelength
Effect of TDD
Summary: WiMAX Technical Solutions
Other Broadband Access Technologies
Overview
IEEE 802.11 vs. 802.16
Cellular Telephony Generations
Birds sing a new tune in wireless era
HSDPA
HSUPA
1x EV-DO
Broadband Access Technologies: Comparison
Wibro vs. 3G
3G vs. WiMAX: Throughput
3G vs. WiMAX: Spectral Efficiency
3G vs. WiFi vs. WiMAX
LTE
Evolution of 3GPP2
IEEE 802.20
IEEE 802.22
WiMAX Competition: Summary
Overall Summary |