Wimax (802.

16)
A Road to Mobile Life
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History Of Wireless
Wimax
Advantages Over Wifi
MAC Structure
Usage Areas
Competitors
Conclusion
 Content
History Of Wireless
Wimax
Advantages Over Wifi
MAC Structure
Usage Areas
Competitors
Conclusion
 History of Wireless
Radio- Jagdish Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi.
Wireless- First patent by Nikola Tesla.
Wireless- Term used for everything for long time

Modern Era
Wireless- is a method of communication that uses
low-powered radio waves to transmit data between
devices.
Low Powered – Free
High Powered – Government Regulated
 Some Wireless Standards
Bluetooth
DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications)
DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications)
HIPERLAN
HIPERMAN
IEEE 802.11
IrDA
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
WiFi
WiMAX
xMax
ZigBee
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 Wimax
Worldwide Interoperability for
Microwave Access
A certification mark for products that pass
conformity and interoperability tests for the IEEE
802.16 standards
Run by Wimax Forum
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 Advantages Over Wifi
Improved Performance

Much Greater Distances

Much Better MAC

LNOS Ability
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History Of Wireless
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Advantages Over Wifi
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Usage Areas
Competitors
Conclusion
 New MAC Structure
A Regular Wifi Uses Contention access
Which means competing for AP.

Wimax uses scheduling MAC

Much Better for QOS required services EX: VOIP , IPTV
Mesh Networking
Subscriber station and Base station at same time

OFDMA
 New MAC Structure (cont.)
Supports ATM

Packet based Control

MAC is flexible enough to efficiently carry any traffic

type. Payload header suppression, packing, and
fragmentation, the convergence sublayers and
MAC.
 Frequency
Originally Working 10 to 66ghz
FDD or TDD.

Now supporting 2 to 11ghz with

802.11a. OFDMA with TDMA access.
 NLOS
Wifi only work on Line of Sight Areas

NON Line Of Sight capability in 2-

11ghz. OFDMA.
 Usage Areas
Broadband Internet Access

Voip , IPTV services

Cellular Phones
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 Competitors
UMTS

HIPERMAN
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 Conclusion
Framework for the evolution of
wireless broadband

Everything will be coordinated with

Wimax