1. Overview of WiMAX and IEEE 802.16
- Fixed Wireless Access
- The First Mile
- WiMAX in LOS and NLOS environments
- Mesh Networks
- WiMAX Applications
- WiMAX Backhau
- Hotspot Solutions
- Last Mile Deployment
- Operators
- ETSI BRAN
- WiMAX Players
- A Maker’s Problem
- Conformance
- Test Specifications
- WiMAX Certification Timelines
- WiMAX Profiles
- The OFDM Forum
- WiMAX versus WLANs
- WiMAX Performance
- Aspects of the Standard
- Different Flavours
- Why so Many?
- Connection Oriented and Connectionless Communications
2. 802.16 Family of Standards
- All the Parts to the Standard
- Structure of the Standard
- 802.16e is pretty new
- Mobility is Hard
- A Major Departure
- 802.16f and g
3. RF Design and Characteristics
- Introduction to Microwave RF: Radio Theory
- Radio Propagation
- Path Loss
- Effects of multipath
- Radio Modulation
- Range
- Time Division Duplexing (TDD)
- Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD)
- WiMAX Mobility - 802.16e
- WiMAX Base Station Hand-off
- Fresnel Zone
4. WiMAX Air Interface - MAC layer
- System Architecture
- Structure of 802.16
- Standard-Specific Terms
- Quality of Service
- Theory of Operation Model
- Service Flows
- PDUs and SDUs
- Convergence Sublayers
- About ATM
- Packet Convergence Sublayer
- What is TCP/IP?
- Mobile IP
- MAC SDU Formats
- Classification and CID Mapping
- Payload Header Suppression
- PHS in Operation
- MAC Common Part Sublayer
- Meshes and Neighbourhoods
- The MAC SAP
- The MAC PDU
- Addressing
- Headers
- Subheaders
- Fragmentation Header
- FAST-FEEDBACK Header
- Bandwidth Request Header
- Concatenation of PDUs
- Uplink Scheduling
- Data Delivery Services
- Request Types
- Grant per Connection Mode
- Grants per SS
- Polling
- Poll-me Bit Usage
- MAC Support of the Physical Layer
- Framed FD Mode of Operation
- Contention Resolution
- Getting onto the System
- Power Saving Class
- Sleep Mode
- Availability/Unavailability
- Sleep Mode Example
- The Handover Process
- Three Levels of Association
- Handover
5. WiMAX Air Interface - Physical Layer
- Technology Solutions
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
- 8902.16e and Scalable OFDMA
- Guard Interval
- Single and Multiple Carriers
- Sub-channelisation
- Antenna Systems
- Transmit and Receive Diversity
- Space Time Coding (STC)
- Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
- Adaptive Modulation
- Forward Error Correction
- Reed-Solomon (RS) coding
- Convolutional coding (CC)
- Puncturing
- Turbo Coding
- PHY Structure
- Different PHY Interfaces
- WirelessMAN-SC PHY
- FDD Framing
- Frame Duration and Physical Slots
- TDD Downlink Structure
- Frame Control
- Downlink PMD Layer
- Downlink Modulation
- Uplink Physical Layer
- Uplink Modulations
- WirelessMAN SCa PHY
- ARQ Function
- ARQ Block Usage
- WirelessMAN OFDM PHY
- WIrelessMAN OFDMA
- Radio Sub System Control
- Power Control
6. Quality of Service
- Service Flows
- Identities
- QoS Parameter Sets
- Three Service Flow Types
- Service Classes
- Service Flow Creation
- Mobile Service Classes
7. WiMAX Security
- Architecture
- Encryption – Private Key
- Public Key System
- Digital Signatures
- Digital Certificates
- Authentication
- Security Threats
- Security Associations
- Available Cryptographic Suites
- PKM
- TEK Overview
8. Planning a WiMAX Network
- Emerging Markets
- CAPEX
- Frequency Band Considerations
- Modulation and Distance
- Indoor CPEs
- Deployment for Coverage
9. Network Design and Implementation
- Don’t just Plan for Launch
- Smart Antennas
- As the Service Evolves
- Base Sites
- Planning
- Low Resolution
- Medium Resolution
- High Resolution
- Link Budget
- Mobile Link Budget
10. Delivering Streaming Services Such as Voice over IP Services (VoIP)
- Voice over WiMAX
- Video over WiMAX
- Current VoIP over Wimax Solutions
11. Current trends with WiMAX
- 802.16iThe Future for WiMAX
- 802.21
- Other RF standards: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DECT
- ntegration of WiMAX and cellular mobile networks
- 3G
- 3GPP Standards
- WiMAX and Mobile IP