Next Generation Wireless Technologies: High Throughput WiFi , WiMAX, and UWB

This tutorial covers the following topics:

1. Part I: Wireless Revenue Trends
• Telecom Revenue
• Wireless Data Connections
• Home Networking Equipment Trends
• Global Broadband Wireless Equipment
• Broadband Market by Regions
• Personal Broadband: Fixed vs. Mobile
• Voice and Data Revenues (Korea)
2. Part II: Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
• Multiple Access Methods
• 1. OFDM
• Advantages of OFDM
• OFDM: Design considerations
• OFDMA
• Scalable OFDMA (SOFDMA)
• 2. Beamforming
• 3. MIMO
• MIMO
• Gigabit Wireless
• Cooperative MIMO
• 4. Space Time Block Codes (STBC)
• 5. Turbo Codes
• 6. Time Division Duplexing (TDD)
• 7. Software Defined Radio
3. Part III: Ultra Wideband (UWB)
• Ultra-Wideband
• Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
• UWB
• Advantages of UWB
• Multi-Band OFDM
• Direct sequence (DS-UWB)
• Applications of UWB
4. Part IV: High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
• 11n Technology
• Major Components of 11n
• IEEE 802.11n Status
• Sample IEEE 802.11n Products
• Hybrid 802.11 Networks: Issues
5. Part V: WiMAX
• Broadband Wireless Access
• Prior Attempts: LMDS & MMDS
• IEEE 802.16: Key Features
• WiMAX
• IEEE 802.16 - QoS Classes
• Spectrum Options
• WiBro
• Status of WiMAX
• Sample WiMAX Subscriber Stations
• Sample WiMAX Base Stations
• WiMAX Technical Solutions
6. Part VI: Other Broadband Technologies
• IEEE 802.11 vs. 802.16
• Cellular Telephony Generations
• 3G Technologies: Bit Rates
• 3G Technologies: PHY
• 4G: IMT-Advanced
• IEEE 802.16m
• 700 MHz
• Evolution of 3GPP2
7. References

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