Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I: Overview of WiMAX -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Broadband Wireless -- 1.1 Evolution of Broadband Wireless -- 1.2 Fixed Broadband Wireless: Market Drivers and Applications -- 1.3 Mobile Broadband Wireless: Market Drivers and Applications -- 1.4 WiMAX and Other Broadband Wireless Technologies -- 1.5 Spectrum Options for Broadband Wireless -- 1.6 Business Challenges for Broadband Wireless and WiMAX -- 1.7 Technical Challenges for Broadband Wireless -- 1.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 1.9 Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Overview of WiMAX -- 2.1 Background on IEEE 802.16 and WiMAX -- 2.2 Salient Features of WiMAX -- 2.3 WiMAX Physical Layer -- 2.4 MAC-Layer Overview -- 2.5 Advanced Features for Performance Enhancements -- 2.6 Reference Network Architecture -- 2.7 Performance Characterization -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 2.9 Bibliography -- Part II: Technical Foundations of WiMAX -- Chapter 3 The Challenge of Broadband Wireless Channels -- 3.1 Communication System Building Blocks -- 3.2 The Broadband Wireless Channel: Pathloss and Shadowing -- 3.3 Cellular Systems -- 3.4 The Broadband Wireless Channel: Fading -- 3.5 Modeling Broadband Fading Channels -- 3.6 Mitigation of Fading -- 3.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 3.8 Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing -- 4.1 Multicarrier Modulation -- 4.2 OFDM Basics -- 4.3 An Example: OFDM in WiMAX -- 4.4 Timing and Frequency Synchronization -- 4.5 The Peak-to-Average Ratio -- 4.6 OFDM's Computational Complexity Advantage -- 4.7 Simulating OFDM Systems -- 4.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 4.9 Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Multiple-Antenna Techniques -- 5.1 The Benefits of Spatial Diversity -- 5.2 Receive Diversity -- 5.3 Transmit Diversity -- 5.4 Beamforming -- 5.5 Spatial Multiplexing.

5.6 Shortcomings of Classical MIMO Theory -- 5.7 Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM -- 5.8 Channel Feedback -- 5.9 Advanced Techniques for MIMO -- Chapter 6 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access -- 6.1 Multiple-Access Strategies for OFDM -- 6.2 Multiuser Diversity and Adaptive Modulation -- 6.3 Resource-Allocation Techniques for OFDMA -- 6.4 OFDMA in WiMAX: Protocols and Challenges -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 6.6 Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Networking and Services Aspects of Broadband Wireless -- 7.1 Quality of Service -- 7.2 Multimedia Session Management -- 7.3 Security -- 7.4 Mobility Management -- 7.5 IP for Wireless: Issues and Potential Solutions -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 7.7 Bibliography -- Part III: Understanding WiMAX and Its Performance -- Chapter 8 PHY Layer of WiMAX -- 8.1 Channel Coding -- 8.2 Hybrid-ARQ -- 8.3 Interleaving -- 8.4 Symbol Mapping -- 8.5 OFDM Symbol Structure -- 8.6 Subchannel and Subcarrier Permutations -- 8.7 Slot and Frame Structure -- 8.8 Transmit Diversity and MIMO -- 8.9 Closed-Loop MIMO -- 8.10 Ranging -- 8.11 Power Control -- 8.12 Channel-Quality Measurements -- 8.13 Summary and Conclusions -- 8.14 Bibliography -- Chapter 9 MAC Layer of WiMAX -- 9.1 Convergence Sublayer -- 9.2 MAC PDU Construction and Transmission -- 9.3 Bandwidth Request and Allocation -- 9.4 Quality of Service -- 9.5 Network Entry and Initialization -- 9.6 Power-Saving Operations -- 9.7 Mobility Management -- 9.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 9.9 Bibliography -- Chapter 10 WiMAX Network Architecture -- 10.1 General Design Principles of the Architecture -- 10.2 Network Reference Model -- 10.3 Protocol Layering Across a WiMAX Network -- 10.4 Network Discovery and Selection -- 10.5 IP Address Assignment -- 10.6 Authentication and Security Architecture -- 10.7 Quality-of-Service Architecture -- 10.8 Mobility Management.

10.9 Radio Resource Management -- 10.10 Paging and Idle-Mode Operation -- 10.11 Summary and Conclusions -- 10.12 Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Link-Level Performance of WiMAX -- 11.1 Methodology for Link-Level Simulation -- 11.2 AWGN Channel Performance of WiMAX -- 11.3 Fading Channel Performance of WiMAX -- 11.4 Benefits of Multiple-Antenna Techniques in WiMAX -- 11.5 Advanced Receiver Structures and Their Benefits for WiMAX -- 11.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 11.7 Bibliography -- Chapter 12 System-Level Performance of WiMAX -- 12.1 Wireless Channel Modeling -- 12.2 Methodology for System-Level Simulation -- 12.3 System-Level Simulation Results -- 12.4 Summary and Conclusions -- 12.5 Appendix: Propagation Models -- 12.6 Bibliography -- Acronyms -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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