Table of Contents
Next Generation Wireless Technologies: High Throughput WiFi , WiMAX, and UWB
Overview
1. Wireless Equipment/Revenue Trends
2. Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
3. Ultra Wideband
4. High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
5. WiMAX Overview
6. WiMAX Technology
7. Competing Broadband Access Technologies
Pre-Test
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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
Networking Hype Cycle 2006
Industry Growth: Formula for Success
Telecom Revenue
Wireless Data Connections
Home Networking Equipment Trends
Global Broadband Wireless Equipment
Broadband Market by Regions
Personal Broadband: Fixed vs. Mobile
Voice and Data Revenues (Korea)
Summary: Wireless Revenue Trends
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Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
Overview
Wireless Radio Channel
Inter-Symbol Interference
Multiplexing
Multiple Access Methods
1. OFDM
Advantages of OFDM
OFDM: Design considerations
OFDMA
Scalable OFDMA (SOFDMA)
2. Beamforming
3. MIMO
MIMO
Gigabit Wireless
Cooperative MIMO
4. Space Time Block Codes (STBC)
5. Turbo Codes
6. Time Division Duplexing (TDD)
7. Software Defined Radio
Body Area Networks (BANs)
Summary: Wireless PHY
Ultra Wideband (UWB)
Overview
Ultra-Wideband
History of UWB
Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
UWB
FCC Rules on UWB
Fractional Bandwidth
Advantages of UWB
Multi-Band OFDM
Direct sequence (DS-UWB)
Applications of UWB
UWB Products
UWB Products Plans
Summary
High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
Overview
Cantenna
Wi-Fi
11n Technology
Major Components of 11n
IEEE 802.11n Status
Sample IEEE 802.11n Products
Hybrid 802.11 Networks: Issues
Summary: 802.11n
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WiMAX Overview
Overview
Broadband Wireless Access
Cavemen of 2020
Prior Attempts: LMDS & MMDS
IEEE 802.16: Key Features
WiMAX
IEEE 802.16 – QoS Classes
Spectrum Options
WiBro
Status of WiMAX
Sample WiMAX Subscriber Stations
Sample WiMAX Base Stations
Summary: WiMAX
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WiMAX Technology
Overview
802.16 Standards
IEEE 802.16 PHYs
IEEE 802.16 Activities
Subchannelization
Subcarrier Permutations
802.16 Frame Structure
Mobile WiMAX Frame
Frame Structure
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
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Other Broadband Access Technologies
Overview
IEEE 802.11 vs. 802.16
Birds sing a new tune in wireless era
Cellular Telephony Generations
3G Technologies: Bit Rates
3G Technologies: PHY
WiMAX vs LTE
WiMAX vs. 3G+: Mirror Images?
4G: IMT-Advanced
IEEE 802.16m
700 MHz
Effect of Frequency
WiMAX Competition: Summary
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Overall Summary |