WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a advice technology for wirelessly carrying accelerated Internet account to ample bounded areas. The 2005 WiMAX afterlight provided bit ante up to 40 Mbit/s12 with the 2011 amend up to 1 Gbit/s for anchored stations.3 It is a allotment of a “fourth generation,” or 4G, of wireless-communication technology, WiMax far surpasses the 30-metre (100-foot) wireless ambit of a accepted Wi-Fi bounded breadth arrangement (LAN), alms a city breadth arrangement with a arresting ambit of about 50 km (30 miles). The name "WiMAX" was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to advance acquiescence and interoperability of the standard. The appointment describes WiMAX as "a standards-based technology enabling the supply of endure mile wireless broadband admission as an another to cable and DSL".4 WiMax offers data-transfer ante of up to 75 Mbit/s, which is above to accepted cable-modem and DSL connections. However, the bandwidth have to be breach a part of assorted users and appropriately yields lower speeds in practice.5
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Terminology
WiMAX refers to interoperable implementations of the IEEE 802.16 ancestors of wireless-networks standards ratified by the WiMAX Forum. Similarly, Wi-Fi, refers to interoperable implementations of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN standards certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. WiMAX Forum acceptance allows vendors to advertise anchored or adaptable articles as WiMAX certified, appropriately ensuring a akin of interoperability with added certified products, as continued as they fit the aforementioned profile.
The aboriginal IEEE 802.16 accepted (now alleged "Fixed WiMAX") was appear in 2001. WiMAX adopted some of its technology from WiBro, a account marketed in Korea.6
Mobile WiMAX (originally based on 802.16e-2005) is the afterlight that was deployed in abounding countries, and base of approaching revisions such as 802.16m-2011.
WiMAX is sometimes referred to as "Wi-Fi on steroids"7 and can be acclimated for a amount of applications including broadband connections, cellular backhaul, hotspots, etc. It is agnate to Wi-Fi but it can aswell admittance acceptance at abundant greater distances.8
The aboriginal IEEE 802.16 accepted (now alleged "Fixed WiMAX") was appear in 2001. WiMAX adopted some of its technology from WiBro, a account marketed in Korea.6
Mobile WiMAX (originally based on 802.16e-2005) is the afterlight that was deployed in abounding countries, and base of approaching revisions such as 802.16m-2011.
WiMAX is sometimes referred to as "Wi-Fi on steroids"7 and can be acclimated for a amount of applications including broadband connections, cellular backhaul, hotspots, etc. It is agnate to Wi-Fi but it can aswell admittance acceptance at abundant greater distances.8
Uses
The bandwidth and ambit of WiMAX accomplish it acceptable for the afterward abeyant applications:
Providing carriageable adaptable broadband connectivity beyond cities and countries through a array of devices.
Providing a wireless another to cable and agenda subscriber band (DSL) for "last mile" broadband access.
Providing data, telecommunications (VoIP) and IPTV casework (triple play).
Providing a antecedent of Internet connectivity as allotment of a business chain plan.
edit Internet access
WiMAX can accommodate calm or adaptable Internet admission beyond accomplished cities or countries. In abounding cases this has resulted in antagonism in markets which about alone had admission through an absolute bounden DSL (or similar) operator.
Additionally, accustomed the almost low costs associated with the deployment of a WiMAX arrangement (in allegory with 3G, HSDPA, xDSL, HFC or FTTx), it is now economically applicable to accommodate last-mile broadband Internet admission in limited locations.
edit Backhaul
Mobile WiMAX was a backup applicant for cellular buzz technologies such as GSM and CDMA, or can be acclimated as an bury to admission capacity. Fixed WiMAX is aswell advised as a wireless backhaul technology for 2G, 3G, and 4G networks in both developed and developing nations.910
In North America, backhaul for burghal operations is about provided via one or added chestnut wire band connections, admitting limited cellular operations are sometimes backhauled via satellite. In added regions, burghal and rural backhaul is usually provided by bake links. (The barring to this is breadth the arrangement is operated by an bounden with accessible admission to the chestnut network.) WiMAX has added abundant backhaul bandwidth requirements than bequest cellular applications. Consequently the use of wireless bake backhaul is on the acceleration in North America and absolute bake backhaul links in all regions are getting upgraded.11 Capacities of amid 34 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s 12 are commonly getting deployed with latencies in the adjustment of 1 ms. In abounding cases, operators are accumulation sites application wireless technology and again presenting cartage on to cilia networks breadth convenient.
edit Triple-play
WiMAX supports the technologies that accomplish triple-play account offerings accessible (such as Quality of Account and Multicasting).
On May 7, 2008 in the United States, Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Bright House, and Time Warner appear a pooling of an boilerplate of 120 MHz of spectrum and alloyed with Clearwire to bazaar the service. The new aggregation hopes to account from accumulated casework offerings and arrangement assets as a springboard accomplished its competitors. The cable companies will accommodate media casework to added ally while accepting admission to the wireless arrangement as a Adaptable basic arrangement abettor to accommodate triple-play services.
Some analystswho? questioned how the accord will plan out: Although fixed-mobile aggregation has been a accustomed agency in the industry, above-mentioned attempts to anatomy partnerships a part of wireless and cable companies accept about bootless to advance to cogent allowances to the participants. Added analysts point out that as wireless progresses to college bandwidth, it accordingly competes added anon with cable and DSL, alarming competitors into collaboration. Also, as wireless broadband networks abound denser and acceptance habits shift, the charge for added backhaul and media account will accelerate, accordingly the befalling to advantage cable assets is accepted to increase.
edit Deployment
WiMAX admission was acclimated to abetment with communicationscitation needed in Aceh, Indonesia, afterwards the tsunami in December 2004. All advice basement in the area, added than abecedarian radio, was destroyedcitation needed, authoritative the survivors clumsy to acquaint with humans alfresco the adversity breadth and carnality versa. WiMAX provided broadband admission that helped change advice to and from Aceh.citation needed
WiMAX accouterments was donated by Intel Corporation to abetment the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and FEMA in their communications efforts in the areas afflicted by Hurricane Katrina.13 In practice, volunteers acclimated mainly self-healing mesh, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and a digital uplink accumulated with Wi-Fi on the bounded link.14
Providing carriageable adaptable broadband connectivity beyond cities and countries through a array of devices.
Providing a wireless another to cable and agenda subscriber band (DSL) for "last mile" broadband access.
Providing data, telecommunications (VoIP) and IPTV casework (triple play).
Providing a antecedent of Internet connectivity as allotment of a business chain plan.
edit Internet access
WiMAX can accommodate calm or adaptable Internet admission beyond accomplished cities or countries. In abounding cases this has resulted in antagonism in markets which about alone had admission through an absolute bounden DSL (or similar) operator.
Additionally, accustomed the almost low costs associated with the deployment of a WiMAX arrangement (in allegory with 3G, HSDPA, xDSL, HFC or FTTx), it is now economically applicable to accommodate last-mile broadband Internet admission in limited locations.
edit Backhaul
Mobile WiMAX was a backup applicant for cellular buzz technologies such as GSM and CDMA, or can be acclimated as an bury to admission capacity. Fixed WiMAX is aswell advised as a wireless backhaul technology for 2G, 3G, and 4G networks in both developed and developing nations.910
In North America, backhaul for burghal operations is about provided via one or added chestnut wire band connections, admitting limited cellular operations are sometimes backhauled via satellite. In added regions, burghal and rural backhaul is usually provided by bake links. (The barring to this is breadth the arrangement is operated by an bounden with accessible admission to the chestnut network.) WiMAX has added abundant backhaul bandwidth requirements than bequest cellular applications. Consequently the use of wireless bake backhaul is on the acceleration in North America and absolute bake backhaul links in all regions are getting upgraded.11 Capacities of amid 34 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s 12 are commonly getting deployed with latencies in the adjustment of 1 ms. In abounding cases, operators are accumulation sites application wireless technology and again presenting cartage on to cilia networks breadth convenient.
edit Triple-play
WiMAX supports the technologies that accomplish triple-play account offerings accessible (such as Quality of Account and Multicasting).
On May 7, 2008 in the United States, Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Bright House, and Time Warner appear a pooling of an boilerplate of 120 MHz of spectrum and alloyed with Clearwire to bazaar the service. The new aggregation hopes to account from accumulated casework offerings and arrangement assets as a springboard accomplished its competitors. The cable companies will accommodate media casework to added ally while accepting admission to the wireless arrangement as a Adaptable basic arrangement abettor to accommodate triple-play services.
Some analystswho? questioned how the accord will plan out: Although fixed-mobile aggregation has been a accustomed agency in the industry, above-mentioned attempts to anatomy partnerships a part of wireless and cable companies accept about bootless to advance to cogent allowances to the participants. Added analysts point out that as wireless progresses to college bandwidth, it accordingly competes added anon with cable and DSL, alarming competitors into collaboration. Also, as wireless broadband networks abound denser and acceptance habits shift, the charge for added backhaul and media account will accelerate, accordingly the befalling to advantage cable assets is accepted to increase.
edit Deployment
WiMAX admission was acclimated to abetment with communicationscitation needed in Aceh, Indonesia, afterwards the tsunami in December 2004. All advice basement in the area, added than abecedarian radio, was destroyedcitation needed, authoritative the survivors clumsy to acquaint with humans alfresco the adversity breadth and carnality versa. WiMAX provided broadband admission that helped change advice to and from Aceh.citation needed
WiMAX accouterments was donated by Intel Corporation to abetment the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and FEMA in their communications efforts in the areas afflicted by Hurricane Katrina.13 In practice, volunteers acclimated mainly self-healing mesh, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and a digital uplink accumulated with Wi-Fi on the bounded link.14
Connecting
Devices that accommodate connectivity to a WiMAX arrangement are accepted as the subscriber abject (SS).
Portable units cover handsets (similar to cellular smartphones); PC peripherals (PC Cards or USB dongles); and anchored accessories in laptops, which are now accessible for Wi-Fi services. In addition, there is abundant accent by operators on customer electronics accessories such as Gaming consoles, MP3 players and agnate devices. WiMAX is added agnate to Wi-Fi than to added 3G cellular technologies.
The WiMAX Forum website provides a account of certified devices. However, this is not a complete account of accessories accessible as certified modules are anchored into laptops, MIDs (Mobile Internet devices), and added clandestine labeled devices.
edit Gateways
WiMAX aperture accessories are accessible as both calm and alfresco versions from several manufacturers. Many of the WiMAX gateways that are offered by articles such as Alvarion, Airspan, ZyXEL, Huawei, Motorola, and Green Packet are stand-alone self-install calm units.15 Such accessories about sit abreast the customer's window with the best signal, and provide:
An chip Wi-Fi admission point to accommodate the WiMAX Internet connectivity to assorted accessories throughout the home or business.
Ethernet ports to affix anon to a computer or DVR instead.
One or two analog blast jacks to affix a land-line buzz and yield advantage of VoIP.
Indoor gateways are convenient, but radio losses beggarly that the subscriber may charge to be decidedly afterpiece to the WiMAX abject base than with professionally-installed alien units.
Outdoor units are almost the admeasurement of a laptop PC, and their accession is commensurable to the accession of a residential digital dish. A higher-gain directional alfresco assemblage will about aftereffect in abundantly added ambit and throughput but with the accessible accident of applied advancement of the unit.
edit Alien modems
USB can accommodate connectivity to a WiMAX arrangement through what is alleged a dongle. About these accessories are affiliated to a anthology or netbook computer. Dongles about accept omnidirectional antennae which are of lower-gain compared to added devices, as such these accessories are best acclimated in areas of acceptable coverage.
edit Adaptable phones
HTC appear the aboriginal WiMAX enabled adaptable phone, the Max 4G, on November 12, 2008.16 The accessory was alone accessible to assertive markets in Russia on the Yota network.
HTC and Sprint Nextel appear the additional WiMAX enabled adaptable phone, the EVO 4G, March 23, 2010 at the CTIA appointment in Las Vegas. The device, fabricated accessible on June 4, 2010,17 is able of both EV-DO(3G) and WiMAX(4G) as able-bodied as accompanying abstracts & articulation sessions. The aforementioned applies to the HTC Evo 3D, which was appear in 2011. A amount of WiMAX Mobiles are accepted to hit the US bazaar in backward 2011 and into 2012.
Portable units cover handsets (similar to cellular smartphones); PC peripherals (PC Cards or USB dongles); and anchored accessories in laptops, which are now accessible for Wi-Fi services. In addition, there is abundant accent by operators on customer electronics accessories such as Gaming consoles, MP3 players and agnate devices. WiMAX is added agnate to Wi-Fi than to added 3G cellular technologies.
The WiMAX Forum website provides a account of certified devices. However, this is not a complete account of accessories accessible as certified modules are anchored into laptops, MIDs (Mobile Internet devices), and added clandestine labeled devices.
edit Gateways
WiMAX aperture accessories are accessible as both calm and alfresco versions from several manufacturers. Many of the WiMAX gateways that are offered by articles such as Alvarion, Airspan, ZyXEL, Huawei, Motorola, and Green Packet are stand-alone self-install calm units.15 Such accessories about sit abreast the customer's window with the best signal, and provide:
An chip Wi-Fi admission point to accommodate the WiMAX Internet connectivity to assorted accessories throughout the home or business.
Ethernet ports to affix anon to a computer or DVR instead.
One or two analog blast jacks to affix a land-line buzz and yield advantage of VoIP.
Indoor gateways are convenient, but radio losses beggarly that the subscriber may charge to be decidedly afterpiece to the WiMAX abject base than with professionally-installed alien units.
Outdoor units are almost the admeasurement of a laptop PC, and their accession is commensurable to the accession of a residential digital dish. A higher-gain directional alfresco assemblage will about aftereffect in abundantly added ambit and throughput but with the accessible accident of applied advancement of the unit.
edit Alien modems
USB can accommodate connectivity to a WiMAX arrangement through what is alleged a dongle. About these accessories are affiliated to a anthology or netbook computer. Dongles about accept omnidirectional antennae which are of lower-gain compared to added devices, as such these accessories are best acclimated in areas of acceptable coverage.
edit Adaptable phones
HTC appear the aboriginal WiMAX enabled adaptable phone, the Max 4G, on November 12, 2008.16 The accessory was alone accessible to assertive markets in Russia on the Yota network.
HTC and Sprint Nextel appear the additional WiMAX enabled adaptable phone, the EVO 4G, March 23, 2010 at the CTIA appointment in Las Vegas. The device, fabricated accessible on June 4, 2010,17 is able of both EV-DO(3G) and WiMAX(4G) as able-bodied as accompanying abstracts & articulation sessions. The aforementioned applies to the HTC Evo 3D, which was appear in 2011. A amount of WiMAX Mobiles are accepted to hit the US bazaar in backward 2011 and into 2012.
Technical information
The IEEE 802.16 Standard
WiMAX is based aloft IEEE Std 802.16e-2005,18 accustomed in December 2005. It is a supplement to the IEEE Std 802.16-2004,19 and so the absolute accepted is 802.16-2004 as adapted by 802.16e-2005. Thus, these blueprint charge to be advised together.
IEEE 802.16e-2005 improves aloft IEEE 802.16-2004 by:
Adding abutment for advancement (soft and harder handover amid abject stations). This is apparent as one of the a lot of important aspects of 802.16e-2005, and is the actual abject of Adaptable WiMAX.
Scaling of the Fast Fourier transform (FFT) to the approach bandwidth in adjustment to accumulate the carrier agreement affiliated beyond altered approach bandwidths (typically 1.25 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz or 20 MHz). Affiliated carrier agreement after-effects in a college spectrum ability in avant-garde channels, and a bulk abridgement in attenuated channels. Aswell accepted as Scalable OFDMA (SOFDMA). Added bands not multiples of 1.25 MHz are authentic in the standard, but because the accustomed FFT subcarrier numbers are alone 128, 512, 1024 and 2048, added abundance bands will not accept absolutely the aforementioned carrier spacing, which ability not be optimal for implementations. Carrier agreement is 10.94 kHz.
Avant-garde antenna assortment schemes, and amalgam automated repeat-request (HARQ)
Adaptive Antenna Systems (AAS) and MIMO technology
Denser sub-channelization, thereby convalescent calm penetration
Introducing Turbo Coding and Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC)
Introducing downlink sub-channelization, acceptance administrators to barter advantage for accommodation or carnality versa
Adding an added QoS chic for VoIP applications.
SOFDMA (used in 802.16e-2005) and OFDM256 (802.16d) are not accordant appropriately accessories will accept to be replaced if an abettor is to move to the after accepted (e.g., Anchored WiMAX to Adaptable WiMAX).
edit Concrete layer
The aboriginal adaptation of the accepted on which WiMAX is based (IEEE 802.16) authentic a concrete bandage operating in the 10 to 66 GHz range. 802.16a, adapted in 2004 to 802.16-2004, added blueprint for the 2 to 11 GHz range. 802.16-2004 was adapted by 802.16e-2005 in 2005 and uses scalable erect frequency-division assorted admission (SOFDMA) as against to the anchored erect frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) adaptation with 256 sub-carriers (of which 200 are used) in 802.16d. Added avant-garde versions, including 802.16e, aswell accompany assorted antenna abutment through MIMO (See WiMAX MIMO). This brings abeyant allowances in agreement of coverage, cocky installation, ability consumption, abundance re-use and bandwidth efficiency. WiMax is the a lot of energy-efficient pre-4G address a allotment of LTE and HSPA+.20
edit MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL, MAC (data link) layer
The WiMAX MAC uses a scheduling algorithm for which the subscriber abject needs to attempt alone already for antecedent admission into the network. After arrangement admission is allowed, the subscriber abject is allocated an admission aperture by the abject station. The time aperture can enlarge and contract, but charcoal assigned to the subscriber station, which agency that added subscribers cannot use it. In accession to getting abiding beneath afflict and over-subscription, the scheduling algorithm can aswell be added bandwidth efficient. The scheduling algorithm aswell allows the abject abject to ascendancy Superior of account (QoS) ambit by acclimation the time-slot assignments a allotment of the appliance needs of the subscriber station.
edit Deployment
As a accepted advised to amuse needs of next-generation abstracts networks (4G), WiMAX is acclaimed by its activating admission algorithm accentuation adaptive to the concrete ambiance the RF arresting campaign through. Accentuation is called to be added spectrally able (more $.25 per OFDM/SOFDMA symbol). That is, if the bursts accept a top arresting backbone and a top carrier to babble added arrest arrangement (CINR), they can be added calmly decoded application agenda arresting processing (DSP). In contrast, operating in beneath favorable environments for RF communication, the arrangement automatically accomplish down to a added able-bodied approach (burst profile) which agency beneath $.25 per OFDM/SOFDMA symbol; with the advantage that ability per bit is college and accordingly simpler authentic arresting processing can be performed.
Burst profiles are acclimated changed (algorithmically dynamic) to low arresting attenuation; acceptation throughput amid audience and the abject abject is bent abundantly by distance. Best ambit is accomplished by the use of the a lot of able-bodied admission setting; that is, the contour with the better MAC anatomy allocation accommodation acute added symbols (a beyond allocation of the MAC frame) to be allocated in transmitting a accustomed bulk of abstracts than if the applicant were afterpiece to the abject station.
The client's MAC anatomy and their alone admission profiles are authentic as able-bodied as the specific time allocation. However, even if this is done automatically again the applied deployment should abstain top arrest and multipath environments. The acumen for which is acutely that too abundant arrest causes the arrangement to action ailing and can aswell adulterate the adequacy of the network.
The arrangement is circuitous to arrange as it is all-important to clue not alone the arresting backbone and CINR (as in systems like GSM) but aswell how the accessible frequencies will be dynamically assigned (resulting in activating changes to the accessible bandwidth.) This could advance to chaotic frequencies with apathetic acknowledgment times or absent frames.
As a aftereffect the arrangement has to be initially advised in accord with the abject abject artefact aggregation to accurately activity abundance use, interference, and accepted artefact functionality.
The Asia-Pacific arena has surpassed the North American arena in agreement of 4G broadband wireless subscribers. There were about 1.7 actor pre-WIMAX and WIMAX barter in Asia - 29% of the all-embracing bazaar - compared to 1.4 actor in the USA and Canada.21
edit Affiliation with an IP-based network
The WiMAX Appointment architecture
The WiMAX Appointment has proposed an architectonics that defines how a WiMAX arrangement can be affiliated with an IP based amount network, which is about called by operators that serve as Internet Account Providers (ISP); Nevertheless the WiMAX BS accommodate seamless affiliation capabilities with added types of architectures as with packet switched Adaptable Networks.
The WiMAX appointment angle defines a amount of components, added some of the arrangement (or advertence points) amid these, labeled R1 to R5 and R8:
SS/MS: the Subscriber Station/Mobile Station
ASN: the Admission Account Network22
BS: Abject station, allotment of the ASN
ASN-GW: the ASN Gateway, allotment of the ASN
CSN: the Connectivity Account Network
HA: Home Agent, allotment of the CSN
AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Server, allotment of the CSN
NAP: a Arrangement Admission Provider
NSP: a Arrangement Account Provider
It is important to agenda that the anatomic architectonics can be advised into assorted accouterments configurations rather than anchored configurations. For example, the architectonics is adjustable abundant to acquiesce remote/mobile stations of capricious calibration and functionality and Abject Stations of capricious admeasurement - e.g. femto, pico, and mini BS as able-bodied as macros.
edit Spectrum allocation
There is no compatible all-around accountant spectrum for WiMAX, about the WiMAX Appointment has appear three accountant spectrum profiles: 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz, in an accomplishment to drive standardisation and abatement cost.
In the USA, the better articulation accessible is about 2.5 GHz,23 and is already assigned, primarily to Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. Elsewhere in the world, the most-likely bands acclimated will be the Appointment accustomed ones, with 2.3 GHz apparently getting a lot of important in Asia. Some countries in Asia like India and Indonesia will use a mix of 2.5 GHz, 3.3 GHz and added frequencies. Pakistan's Wateen Telecom uses 3.5 GHz.
Analog TV bands (700 MHz) may become accessible for WiMAX usage, but anticipate the complete cycle out of agenda TV, and there will be added uses appropriate for that spectrum. In the USA the FCC bargain for this spectrum began in January 2008 and, as a result, the better allotment of the spectrum went to Verizon Wireless and the next better to AT&T.24 Both of these companies accept declared their ambition of acknowledging LTE, a technology which competes anon with WiMAX. EU abettor Viviane Reding has appropriate re-allocation of 500–800 MHz spectrum for wireless communication, including WiMAX.25
WiMAX profiles ascertain approach size, TDD/FDD and added all-important attributes in adjustment to accept inter-operating products. The accepted anchored profiles are authentic for both TDD and FDD profiles. At this point, all of the adaptable profiles are TDD only. The anchored profiles accept approach sizes of 3.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 7 MHz and 10 MHz. The adaptable profiles are 5 MHz, 8.75 MHz and 10 MHz. (Note: the 802.16 accepted allows a far added array of channels, but alone the aloft subsets are accurate as WiMAX profiles.)
Since October 2007, the Radio advice Breadth of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R) has absitively to cover WiMAX technology in the IMT-2000 set of standards.26 This enables spectrum owners (specifically in the 2.5-2.69 GHz bandage at this stage) to use WiMAX accessories in any country that recognizes the IMT-2000.
edit Ashen efficiency
One of the cogent advantages of avant-garde wireless systems such as WiMAX is ashen efficiency. For example, 802.16-2004 (fixed) has a ashen ability of 3.7 (bit/s)/Hertz, and added 3.5–4G wireless systems action ashen efficiencies that are agnate to aural a few tenths of a percent. The notable advantage of WiMAX comes from accumulation SOFDMA with acute antenna technologies. This multiplies the able ashen ability through assorted reclaim and acute arrangement deployment topologies. The absolute use of abundance breadth alignment simplifies designs application MIMO-AAS compared to CDMA/WCDMA methods, consistent in added able systems.
edit Inherent limitations
WiMAX cannot bear 70 Mbit/s over 50 kilometers (31 mi). Like all wireless technologies, WiMAX can accomplish at college bitrates or over best distances but not both. Operating at the best ambit of 50 km (31 mi) increases bit absurdity amount and appropriately after-effects in a abundant lower bitrate. Conversely, abbreviation the ambit (to beneath 1 km) allows a accessory to accomplish at college bitrates.
A city-wide deployment of WiMAX in Perth, Australia approved that barter at the cell-edge with an calm Customer-premises accessories (CPE) about admission speeds of about 1–4 Mbit/s, with users afterpiece to the corpuscle website accepting speeds of up to 30 Mbit/s.citation needed
Like all wireless systems, accessible bandwidth is aggregate amid users in a accustomed radio sector, so achievement could adulterate in the case of abounding alive users in a individual sector. However, with able accommodation planning and the use of WiMAX's Superior of Service, a minimum affirmed throughput for anniversary subscriber can be put in place. In practice, a lot of users will accept a ambit of 4-8 Mbit/s casework and added radio cards will be added to the abject abject to admission the amount of users that may be served as required.
edit Silicon implementations
Picture of a WiMAX MIMO board
A amount of specialized companies produced baseband ICs and chip RFICs for WiMAX Subscriber Stations in the 2.3, 2.5 and 3.5 GHz bands (refer to 'Spectrum allocation' above). These companies include, but are not bound to, Beceem, Sequans, and PicoChip.
edit Comparison
Comparisons and abashing amid WiMAX and Wi-Fi are common because both are accompanying to wireless connectivity and Internet access.27
WiMAX is a continued ambit system, accoutrement abounding kilometres, that uses accountant or actionable spectrum to bear affiliation to a network, in a lot of cases the Internet.
Wi-Fi uses actionable spectrum to accommodate admission to a bounded network.
Wi-Fi is added accepted in end user devices.
Wi-Fi runs on the Media Admission Control's CSMA/CA protocol, which is connectionless and altercation based, admitting WiMAX runs a connection-oriented MAC.
WiMAX and Wi-Fi accept absolutely altered superior of account (QoS) mechanisms:
WiMAX uses a QoS apparatus based on admission amid the abject abject and the user device. Anniversary affiliation is based on specific scheduling algorithms.
Wi-Fi uses altercation admission - all subscriber stations that ambition to canyon abstracts through a wireless admission point (AP) are aggressive for the AP's absorption on a accidental arrest basis. This can could cause subscriber stations abroad from the AP to be again disconnected by afterpiece stations, abundantly abbreviation their throughput.
Both 802.11 (which includes Wi-Fi) and 802.16 (which includes WiMAX) ascertain Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and ad hoc networks, breadth an end user communicates to users or servers on addition Bounded Breadth Arrangement (LAN) application its admission point or abject station. However, 802.11 supports aswell absolute ad hoc or associate to associate networking amid end user accessories after an admission point while 802.16 end user accessories have to be in ambit of the abject station.
Although Wi-Fi and WiMAX are advised for altered situations, they are complementary. WiMAX arrangement operators about accommodate a WiMAX Subscriber Unit which connects to the city WiMAX arrangement and provides Wi-Fi aural the home or business for bounded accessories (e.g., Laptops, Wi-Fi Handsets, smartphones) for connectivity. This enables the user to abode the WiMAX Subscriber Unit in the best accession breadth (such as a window), and still be able to use the WiMAX arrangement from any abode aural their residence.
WiMAX is based aloft IEEE Std 802.16e-2005,18 accustomed in December 2005. It is a supplement to the IEEE Std 802.16-2004,19 and so the absolute accepted is 802.16-2004 as adapted by 802.16e-2005. Thus, these blueprint charge to be advised together.
IEEE 802.16e-2005 improves aloft IEEE 802.16-2004 by:
Adding abutment for advancement (soft and harder handover amid abject stations). This is apparent as one of the a lot of important aspects of 802.16e-2005, and is the actual abject of Adaptable WiMAX.
Scaling of the Fast Fourier transform (FFT) to the approach bandwidth in adjustment to accumulate the carrier agreement affiliated beyond altered approach bandwidths (typically 1.25 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz or 20 MHz). Affiliated carrier agreement after-effects in a college spectrum ability in avant-garde channels, and a bulk abridgement in attenuated channels. Aswell accepted as Scalable OFDMA (SOFDMA). Added bands not multiples of 1.25 MHz are authentic in the standard, but because the accustomed FFT subcarrier numbers are alone 128, 512, 1024 and 2048, added abundance bands will not accept absolutely the aforementioned carrier spacing, which ability not be optimal for implementations. Carrier agreement is 10.94 kHz.
Avant-garde antenna assortment schemes, and amalgam automated repeat-request (HARQ)
Adaptive Antenna Systems (AAS) and MIMO technology
Denser sub-channelization, thereby convalescent calm penetration
Introducing Turbo Coding and Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC)
Introducing downlink sub-channelization, acceptance administrators to barter advantage for accommodation or carnality versa
Adding an added QoS chic for VoIP applications.
SOFDMA (used in 802.16e-2005) and OFDM256 (802.16d) are not accordant appropriately accessories will accept to be replaced if an abettor is to move to the after accepted (e.g., Anchored WiMAX to Adaptable WiMAX).
edit Concrete layer
The aboriginal adaptation of the accepted on which WiMAX is based (IEEE 802.16) authentic a concrete bandage operating in the 10 to 66 GHz range. 802.16a, adapted in 2004 to 802.16-2004, added blueprint for the 2 to 11 GHz range. 802.16-2004 was adapted by 802.16e-2005 in 2005 and uses scalable erect frequency-division assorted admission (SOFDMA) as against to the anchored erect frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) adaptation with 256 sub-carriers (of which 200 are used) in 802.16d. Added avant-garde versions, including 802.16e, aswell accompany assorted antenna abutment through MIMO (See WiMAX MIMO). This brings abeyant allowances in agreement of coverage, cocky installation, ability consumption, abundance re-use and bandwidth efficiency. WiMax is the a lot of energy-efficient pre-4G address a allotment of LTE and HSPA+.20
edit MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL, MAC (data link) layer
The WiMAX MAC uses a scheduling algorithm for which the subscriber abject needs to attempt alone already for antecedent admission into the network. After arrangement admission is allowed, the subscriber abject is allocated an admission aperture by the abject station. The time aperture can enlarge and contract, but charcoal assigned to the subscriber station, which agency that added subscribers cannot use it. In accession to getting abiding beneath afflict and over-subscription, the scheduling algorithm can aswell be added bandwidth efficient. The scheduling algorithm aswell allows the abject abject to ascendancy Superior of account (QoS) ambit by acclimation the time-slot assignments a allotment of the appliance needs of the subscriber station.
edit Deployment
As a accepted advised to amuse needs of next-generation abstracts networks (4G), WiMAX is acclaimed by its activating admission algorithm accentuation adaptive to the concrete ambiance the RF arresting campaign through. Accentuation is called to be added spectrally able (more $.25 per OFDM/SOFDMA symbol). That is, if the bursts accept a top arresting backbone and a top carrier to babble added arrest arrangement (CINR), they can be added calmly decoded application agenda arresting processing (DSP). In contrast, operating in beneath favorable environments for RF communication, the arrangement automatically accomplish down to a added able-bodied approach (burst profile) which agency beneath $.25 per OFDM/SOFDMA symbol; with the advantage that ability per bit is college and accordingly simpler authentic arresting processing can be performed.
Burst profiles are acclimated changed (algorithmically dynamic) to low arresting attenuation; acceptation throughput amid audience and the abject abject is bent abundantly by distance. Best ambit is accomplished by the use of the a lot of able-bodied admission setting; that is, the contour with the better MAC anatomy allocation accommodation acute added symbols (a beyond allocation of the MAC frame) to be allocated in transmitting a accustomed bulk of abstracts than if the applicant were afterpiece to the abject station.
The client's MAC anatomy and their alone admission profiles are authentic as able-bodied as the specific time allocation. However, even if this is done automatically again the applied deployment should abstain top arrest and multipath environments. The acumen for which is acutely that too abundant arrest causes the arrangement to action ailing and can aswell adulterate the adequacy of the network.
The arrangement is circuitous to arrange as it is all-important to clue not alone the arresting backbone and CINR (as in systems like GSM) but aswell how the accessible frequencies will be dynamically assigned (resulting in activating changes to the accessible bandwidth.) This could advance to chaotic frequencies with apathetic acknowledgment times or absent frames.
As a aftereffect the arrangement has to be initially advised in accord with the abject abject artefact aggregation to accurately activity abundance use, interference, and accepted artefact functionality.
The Asia-Pacific arena has surpassed the North American arena in agreement of 4G broadband wireless subscribers. There were about 1.7 actor pre-WIMAX and WIMAX barter in Asia - 29% of the all-embracing bazaar - compared to 1.4 actor in the USA and Canada.21
edit Affiliation with an IP-based network
The WiMAX Appointment architecture
The WiMAX Appointment has proposed an architectonics that defines how a WiMAX arrangement can be affiliated with an IP based amount network, which is about called by operators that serve as Internet Account Providers (ISP); Nevertheless the WiMAX BS accommodate seamless affiliation capabilities with added types of architectures as with packet switched Adaptable Networks.
The WiMAX appointment angle defines a amount of components, added some of the arrangement (or advertence points) amid these, labeled R1 to R5 and R8:
SS/MS: the Subscriber Station/Mobile Station
ASN: the Admission Account Network22
BS: Abject station, allotment of the ASN
ASN-GW: the ASN Gateway, allotment of the ASN
CSN: the Connectivity Account Network
HA: Home Agent, allotment of the CSN
AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Server, allotment of the CSN
NAP: a Arrangement Admission Provider
NSP: a Arrangement Account Provider
It is important to agenda that the anatomic architectonics can be advised into assorted accouterments configurations rather than anchored configurations. For example, the architectonics is adjustable abundant to acquiesce remote/mobile stations of capricious calibration and functionality and Abject Stations of capricious admeasurement - e.g. femto, pico, and mini BS as able-bodied as macros.
edit Spectrum allocation
There is no compatible all-around accountant spectrum for WiMAX, about the WiMAX Appointment has appear three accountant spectrum profiles: 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz, in an accomplishment to drive standardisation and abatement cost.
In the USA, the better articulation accessible is about 2.5 GHz,23 and is already assigned, primarily to Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. Elsewhere in the world, the most-likely bands acclimated will be the Appointment accustomed ones, with 2.3 GHz apparently getting a lot of important in Asia. Some countries in Asia like India and Indonesia will use a mix of 2.5 GHz, 3.3 GHz and added frequencies. Pakistan's Wateen Telecom uses 3.5 GHz.
Analog TV bands (700 MHz) may become accessible for WiMAX usage, but anticipate the complete cycle out of agenda TV, and there will be added uses appropriate for that spectrum. In the USA the FCC bargain for this spectrum began in January 2008 and, as a result, the better allotment of the spectrum went to Verizon Wireless and the next better to AT&T.24 Both of these companies accept declared their ambition of acknowledging LTE, a technology which competes anon with WiMAX. EU abettor Viviane Reding has appropriate re-allocation of 500–800 MHz spectrum for wireless communication, including WiMAX.25
WiMAX profiles ascertain approach size, TDD/FDD and added all-important attributes in adjustment to accept inter-operating products. The accepted anchored profiles are authentic for both TDD and FDD profiles. At this point, all of the adaptable profiles are TDD only. The anchored profiles accept approach sizes of 3.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 7 MHz and 10 MHz. The adaptable profiles are 5 MHz, 8.75 MHz and 10 MHz. (Note: the 802.16 accepted allows a far added array of channels, but alone the aloft subsets are accurate as WiMAX profiles.)
Since October 2007, the Radio advice Breadth of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R) has absitively to cover WiMAX technology in the IMT-2000 set of standards.26 This enables spectrum owners (specifically in the 2.5-2.69 GHz bandage at this stage) to use WiMAX accessories in any country that recognizes the IMT-2000.
edit Ashen efficiency
One of the cogent advantages of avant-garde wireless systems such as WiMAX is ashen efficiency. For example, 802.16-2004 (fixed) has a ashen ability of 3.7 (bit/s)/Hertz, and added 3.5–4G wireless systems action ashen efficiencies that are agnate to aural a few tenths of a percent. The notable advantage of WiMAX comes from accumulation SOFDMA with acute antenna technologies. This multiplies the able ashen ability through assorted reclaim and acute arrangement deployment topologies. The absolute use of abundance breadth alignment simplifies designs application MIMO-AAS compared to CDMA/WCDMA methods, consistent in added able systems.
edit Inherent limitations
WiMAX cannot bear 70 Mbit/s over 50 kilometers (31 mi). Like all wireless technologies, WiMAX can accomplish at college bitrates or over best distances but not both. Operating at the best ambit of 50 km (31 mi) increases bit absurdity amount and appropriately after-effects in a abundant lower bitrate. Conversely, abbreviation the ambit (to beneath 1 km) allows a accessory to accomplish at college bitrates.
A city-wide deployment of WiMAX in Perth, Australia approved that barter at the cell-edge with an calm Customer-premises accessories (CPE) about admission speeds of about 1–4 Mbit/s, with users afterpiece to the corpuscle website accepting speeds of up to 30 Mbit/s.citation needed
Like all wireless systems, accessible bandwidth is aggregate amid users in a accustomed radio sector, so achievement could adulterate in the case of abounding alive users in a individual sector. However, with able accommodation planning and the use of WiMAX's Superior of Service, a minimum affirmed throughput for anniversary subscriber can be put in place. In practice, a lot of users will accept a ambit of 4-8 Mbit/s casework and added radio cards will be added to the abject abject to admission the amount of users that may be served as required.
edit Silicon implementations
Picture of a WiMAX MIMO board
A amount of specialized companies produced baseband ICs and chip RFICs for WiMAX Subscriber Stations in the 2.3, 2.5 and 3.5 GHz bands (refer to 'Spectrum allocation' above). These companies include, but are not bound to, Beceem, Sequans, and PicoChip.
edit Comparison
Comparisons and abashing amid WiMAX and Wi-Fi are common because both are accompanying to wireless connectivity and Internet access.27
WiMAX is a continued ambit system, accoutrement abounding kilometres, that uses accountant or actionable spectrum to bear affiliation to a network, in a lot of cases the Internet.
Wi-Fi uses actionable spectrum to accommodate admission to a bounded network.
Wi-Fi is added accepted in end user devices.
Wi-Fi runs on the Media Admission Control's CSMA/CA protocol, which is connectionless and altercation based, admitting WiMAX runs a connection-oriented MAC.
WiMAX and Wi-Fi accept absolutely altered superior of account (QoS) mechanisms:
WiMAX uses a QoS apparatus based on admission amid the abject abject and the user device. Anniversary affiliation is based on specific scheduling algorithms.
Wi-Fi uses altercation admission - all subscriber stations that ambition to canyon abstracts through a wireless admission point (AP) are aggressive for the AP's absorption on a accidental arrest basis. This can could cause subscriber stations abroad from the AP to be again disconnected by afterpiece stations, abundantly abbreviation their throughput.
Both 802.11 (which includes Wi-Fi) and 802.16 (which includes WiMAX) ascertain Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and ad hoc networks, breadth an end user communicates to users or servers on addition Bounded Breadth Arrangement (LAN) application its admission point or abject station. However, 802.11 supports aswell absolute ad hoc or associate to associate networking amid end user accessories after an admission point while 802.16 end user accessories have to be in ambit of the abject station.
Although Wi-Fi and WiMAX are advised for altered situations, they are complementary. WiMAX arrangement operators about accommodate a WiMAX Subscriber Unit which connects to the city WiMAX arrangement and provides Wi-Fi aural the home or business for bounded accessories (e.g., Laptops, Wi-Fi Handsets, smartphones) for connectivity. This enables the user to abode the WiMAX Subscriber Unit in the best accession breadth (such as a window), and still be able to use the WiMAX arrangement from any abode aural their residence.
Conformance testing
TTCN-3 analysis blueprint accent is acclimated for the purposes of allegorical acclimation tests for WiMAX implementations. The WiMAX analysis apartment is getting developed by a Specialist Task Force at ETSI (STF 252).28
edit Associations
edit WiMAX Forum
The WiMAX Forum is a non accumulation alignment formed to advance the acceptance of WiMAX accordant articles and services.29
A above role for the alignment is to accredit the interoperability of WiMAX products.30 Those that canyon acclimation and interoperability testing accomplish the "WiMAX Forum Certified" designation, and can affectation this mark on their articles and business materials. Some vendors affirmation that their accessories is "WiMAX-ready", "WiMAX-compliant", or "pre-WiMAX", if they are not clearly WiMAX Forum Certified.
Another role of the WiMAX Forum is to advance the advance of ability about WiMAX. In adjustment to do so, it has a certified training affairs that is currently offered in English and French. It aswell offers a alternation of affiliate contest and endorses some industry events.
WiSOA logo
edit WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance
WiSOA was the aboriginal all-around alignment composed alone of owners of WiMAX spectrum with affairs to arrange WiMAX technology in those bands. WiSOA focussed on the regulation, commercialisation, and deployment of WiMAX spectrum in the 2.3–2.5 GHz and the 3.4–3.5 GHz ranges. WiSOA alloyed with the Wireless Broadband Alliance in April 2008. 31
edit Telecommunications Industry Association
TIA logo
In 2011, the Telecommunications Industry Association appear three abstruse standards (TIA-1164, TIA-1143, and TIA-1140) that awning the air interface and amount networking aspects of Wi-Max High-Rate Packet Data (HRPD) systems application a Mobile Station/Access Terminal (MS/AT), with a individual transmitter.32
edit Associations
edit WiMAX Forum
The WiMAX Forum is a non accumulation alignment formed to advance the acceptance of WiMAX accordant articles and services.29
A above role for the alignment is to accredit the interoperability of WiMAX products.30 Those that canyon acclimation and interoperability testing accomplish the "WiMAX Forum Certified" designation, and can affectation this mark on their articles and business materials. Some vendors affirmation that their accessories is "WiMAX-ready", "WiMAX-compliant", or "pre-WiMAX", if they are not clearly WiMAX Forum Certified.
Another role of the WiMAX Forum is to advance the advance of ability about WiMAX. In adjustment to do so, it has a certified training affairs that is currently offered in English and French. It aswell offers a alternation of affiliate contest and endorses some industry events.
WiSOA logo
edit WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance
WiSOA was the aboriginal all-around alignment composed alone of owners of WiMAX spectrum with affairs to arrange WiMAX technology in those bands. WiSOA focussed on the regulation, commercialisation, and deployment of WiMAX spectrum in the 2.3–2.5 GHz and the 3.4–3.5 GHz ranges. WiSOA alloyed with the Wireless Broadband Alliance in April 2008. 31
edit Telecommunications Industry Association
TIA logo
In 2011, the Telecommunications Industry Association appear three abstruse standards (TIA-1164, TIA-1143, and TIA-1140) that awning the air interface and amount networking aspects of Wi-Max High-Rate Packet Data (HRPD) systems application a Mobile Station/Access Terminal (MS/AT), with a individual transmitter.32
Competing technologies
Within the marketplace, WiMAX's capital antagonism came from existing, broadly deployed wireless systems such as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), CDMA2000, absolute Wi-Fi and cobweb networking.
Speed vs. advancement of wireless systems: Wi-Fi, High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), GSM
In the future, antagonism will be from the change of the above cellular standards to alleged 4G, high-bandwidth, low-latency, all-IP networks with articulation casework congenital on top. The common move to 4G for GSM/UMTS and AMPS/TIA (including CDMA2000) is the 3GPP Long Term Change (LTE) effort.
LTE is accepted to be ratified at the end of 2010, with bartering implementations acceptable applicable aural the next two years. End of 2009 TeliaSonera started bartering deployment in Oslo and Stockholm. In Denmark the 3 big telecoms are advance their network, and will accomplish LTE accessible during 2010.
In some areas of the world, the advanced availability of UMTS and a accepted admiration for acclimation has meant spectrum has not been allocated for WiMAX: in July 2005, the EU-wide abundance allocation for WiMAX was blocked.
edit Harmonization
Early WirelessMAN standards, the European accepted HiperMAN and Korean accepted WiBro were harmonized as allotment of WiMAX and are no best apparent as antagonism but as complementary. All networks now getting deployed in South Korea, the home of the WiBro standard, are now WiMAX.
edit Comparison with Wi-Fi
Main article: Comparison of wireless abstracts standards
The afterward table alone shows aiguille ante which are potentially actual misleading. In addition, the comparisons listed are not normalized by concrete approach admeasurement (i.e., spectrum acclimated to accomplish the listed aiguille rates); this obfuscates ashen ability and net through-put capabilities of the altered wireless technologies listed below.
Speed vs. advancement of wireless systems: Wi-Fi, High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), GSM
In the future, antagonism will be from the change of the above cellular standards to alleged 4G, high-bandwidth, low-latency, all-IP networks with articulation casework congenital on top. The common move to 4G for GSM/UMTS and AMPS/TIA (including CDMA2000) is the 3GPP Long Term Change (LTE) effort.
LTE is accepted to be ratified at the end of 2010, with bartering implementations acceptable applicable aural the next two years. End of 2009 TeliaSonera started bartering deployment in Oslo and Stockholm. In Denmark the 3 big telecoms are advance their network, and will accomplish LTE accessible during 2010.
In some areas of the world, the advanced availability of UMTS and a accepted admiration for acclimation has meant spectrum has not been allocated for WiMAX: in July 2005, the EU-wide abundance allocation for WiMAX was blocked.
edit Harmonization
Early WirelessMAN standards, the European accepted HiperMAN and Korean accepted WiBro were harmonized as allotment of WiMAX and are no best apparent as antagonism but as complementary. All networks now getting deployed in South Korea, the home of the WiBro standard, are now WiMAX.
edit Comparison with Wi-Fi
Main article: Comparison of wireless abstracts standards
The afterward table alone shows aiguille ante which are potentially actual misleading. In addition, the comparisons listed are not normalized by concrete approach admeasurement (i.e., spectrum acclimated to accomplish the listed aiguille rates); this obfuscates ashen ability and net through-put capabilities of the altered wireless technologies listed below.
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