WiMax training course description

Broadband wireless access is an emerging technology area. This course looks at WiMAX, where it can be used, how it works and the alternative technologies.

What will you learn

• Describe WiMAX.
• Explain how WiMAX works.
• Compare and contrast WiMAX with alternative broadband wireless access technologies.

WiMax training course details

WiMax training course contents

• Introduction

What is WiMAX? WiMAX applications, The Internet, Internet access choices, wireless broadband access, WiMAX benefits.

• WiMAX overview

Spectrums, LOS vs. non-LOS, bit rates, modulation, mobility, channel bandwidth, cell radius.

• WiMAX standards

The WiMAX forum, IEEE, ETSI, HIPERACCESS, HIPERMAN, 802.16, 802.16-2004, 802.16a, 802.16e, 802.16f.

• WiMAX architecture

Subscriber Stations (SS), Indoors, outdoors, antennas, Radio Base Stations (BS), LOS, Non LOS BackHaul, Point to multipoint, mesh support.

• Physical layer

10 – 66GHz, TDMA, TDD, FDD, 2 –11 GHz, SC2, OFDM, OFDMA, QPSK, QAM, Radio Link Control (RLC), uplink, downlink.

• MAC layer

Traffic types (continuous, bursty), QoS, service types. MAC operations, connection oriented, frame structure, addressing. Convergence sublayers, service specific, common part, profiles (IP, ATM). Bandwidth request-grant, ARQ, Management messages.

• Security

MAC privacy sublayer, network access authentication, AAA, 802.1x, key exchange and privacy.

• WiMAX alternatives

WiMAX vs. 3G, WiMAX vs. 802.20.

Learning path

Reviews