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WiMAX for Broadband Wireless Access

Nº 1421
DATE: CALL
PRICE NIS: 2120 + VAT
DURATION: 2 Days

Course Overview:

This course will provide the participant with broad knowledge on current WiMAX and 802.16 standards, trends, issues and technologies. It studies issues regarding WiMAX as a Broadband Wireless Access, and as a mobile broadband wireless access technology, in comparison to other tehchnoloiges. Techno-economics of WiMAX as is also included, as well as the principles of a WiMAX network planning.

Who should attend?

Technical Managers, seeking good understanding of the challenges and tradeoffs of WiMAX as a fixed or mobile BWA technology
Development Engineers requiring a good end-to-end introduction to the operation of WiMAX network
Radio Network Engineers
System and R&D Engineers aiming to be familiar with the network planning and deployment aspects of wireless networks
Anyone who needs to know about WiMAX, how it works and how it is deployed.

Prerequisities:

Knowledge in Networks and Radio

Course Outline:

WiMAX Market

1. Overview of Broadband Wireless Markets, Applications, and Requirements

WiMAX vision and requirements
Architecture of a broadband wireless access network
The role of IEEE, ETSI, WiMAX Forum™
WiMAX profiles and certification
WiMAX Compared with other BWA technologies,
- WiMAX status and roadmap

2. WiMAX and 802.16 High-level Architecture

The WiMAX network architecture
Physical Architecture, Protocol Architecture

3. 802.16e Physical Layer

The wireless channel: fading, flat and selective
Overview of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
Deep look at Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
Rational behind OFDMA for Mobility
Coding and Modulation
Subchannelization, Permutation, FUSC, PUSC
Frame Structure
HARQ
Adaptive PHY concept
AAS Techniques
- Adaptive arrays
- STC
- MRC
- MIMO
Sounding

4. 802.16e Medium Access Control

MAC structure
The MAC PDU structure and types
MAC SDU
MAC management messages
Data handling
- Concentration
- fragmentation
- packing
concatenation,
Network entry process
Bandwidth Request
Service Allocation
ARQ Mechanism
The multicast and broadcast service
Mobility Support
- Neighbor Scan and Report
- Handover procedure
- Sleep and Idle modes
- Paging
Feedback MAC messages

5. Convergence Sublayer

Classification
PHS
QoS support

6. Radio Section

Radio Specifications (Sensitivity, EVM)
Radio Design considerations (Linearity, Timing, Delays)
Dynamically configured radio
Cognitive Base Band architecture

7. Security Sublayer

Security Architecture
PKM Protocols
Key Usage
Cryptographic Methods

8. WiMAX and BWA Network Planning

The network planning process
Propagation, fading and Channel Models
Range Limited vs. Capacity Limited planning
Site configuration
Frequency Planning and Re-use factor, FUSC and PUSC
System capacity and dimensioning

9. WiMAX Evolution Path

On going project within IEEE 802.16
WiMAX development towards IMT-Advanced

10. Summary

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