WiMAX Evolution Emerging Technologies and Applications

by Katz, Marcos; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

• ISBN13: 9780470696804
• ISBN10: 047069680X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-02
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book presents the evolutionary and visionary developments of WiMAX!WiMAX Evolution: Emerging Technologies and Applications focuses on the future developments of WiMAX technology. The book discusses the evolutionary aspects of WiMAX, from the physical to the application layer, including visions from industry, standardization and research communities. Several chapters of the book will present very new and unique information as editors and their respective organizations are involved in ongoing international projects on WiMAX, developing advanced WiMAX techniques. The Editors' in-house WiMAX test-beds enhance the book with privileged and seldom published information on practical issues.Key features: Presents evolutionary and visionary developments of WiMAX, motivating and inspiring readers to join and continue the developing work Contains chapters with previously unpublished material, including measurements on real WiMAX equipment and their validation, and introduction of robust header compression in WiMAX, and more Unique results on real WiMAX test-beds Covers WiMAX validation, novel scenarios, applications and business, advanced WiMAX architectures, WiMAX extensions, and WiMAX evolution and future developments Expert authorship with a balanced mix of contributions from highly regarded professionals from top research institutes, industry and academiaThis book is an invaluable resource for product developers, research and standardization engineers in industry, professors, research scientists and advanced students in academia. Technology managers and CTOs will also find this book insightful.

Author Biography

Dr Marcos Katz, VTT, Finland
Dr Katz received his PhD from University of Oulu, Finland in 2002. He has 20 years of experience in the field of wireless communications (industry, academia and, research institutions). He has edited 2 books and published widely in journals and conferences. He is currently a Technical Manager of EU FP6 Integrated Project dealing with new WiMAX scenarios, technical solutions and test-beds. He is developing multiantenna solutions for new WiMAX scenarios (environmental monitoring), and is also involved in exploring novel WiMAX architectures exploiting cooperation.

Professor Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark
Frank Fitzek is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Communication Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark, heading the Future Vision and Mobile Device group. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless and mobile communication networks, mobile phone programming, cross layer as well as energy efficient protocol design and cooperative networking. Currently Dr. Fitzek is working on robust header compression (ROHC) techniques for WiMAX as well as exploring cooperative networking concepts in WiMAX

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

Introduction

Introduction to WiMAX Technology

Overview of State-of-the-artWiMAX Technology

WiMAX Evolution Path

References

WiMAX Validation: Validating Current Fixed and Mobile WiMAX Through Advanced Testbeds

WiMAX Performance in Practice

Empirical Evaluations of WiMAX

Fixed WiMAX Testbed Evaluation

VoIP Over Fixed WiMAX

IPTV overfixed WiMAX

Mobile WiMAX Testbed Evaluation

Summary

Further Reading

References

Novel Scenarios

Novel WiMAX Scenarios for Future Broadband Wireless Access Networks

Introduction

WMAN Network Provider

Telemedicine Applications

Environmental Monitoring

Conclusions

References

Pricing in WiMAX Networks Ioannis Papapanagiotou

Introduction

Economics in Network Engineering

Building the Pricing Schemes

Pricing in Different WiMAX Topologies

Conclusion

References

Advanced WiMAX Architectures

WiMAX Femtocells Chris Smart, Clare Somerville and Doug Pulley

Introduction

Architecture of a WiMAX Femtocell

Femtocell Fundamentals

Femtocell-Macrocell Interference

References

Cooperative Principles in WiMAXQi Zhang

Introduction

Cooperative Diversity Schemes in Mobile Multihop Relay Based WiMAX(802.16j)

Cooperative Schemes for Multicast Broadcast Services in WiMAX

Network Coding Implementation in the Commercial WiMAX Mobile Device

Conclusion

References

Contents

The Role of WiMAX Technology in Distributed Wide Area Monitoring Applications

Monitoring with the WSN Paradigm

Overall System Architecture

Efficient Access Management Schemes

Secure Communications Approaches

References

WiMAX Mesh Architectures and Network Coding

Introduction

Background on the IEEE 802.16 MeSH Mode

Design Principles for Network Coding in the IEEE 802.16 MeSH Mode

Enabling WNC for the IEEE 802.16 MeSH Mode

Related Work

Conclusions and Outlook

References

ASN-GWHigh Availability through Cooperative Networking in Mobile WiMAX Deployments

Introduction

Classic HAI mplementation

Network-based Resiliency Solutions for Routing

WiMAX Network Elements R4/R6 Health Management

R6 Load Balancing

ASN-GW Failure and Recovery

N:N Redundancy

Multi-instance ASN-GW

The Proposal Summary

Conclusions

WiMAX Extensions

Robust Header Compression for WiMAX Fem to Cells

Contents

Introduction

ROHC in a Nutshell

Scenario Under Investigation

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