Training Course Description:
This course is designed to give a very solid understanding of all aspects of the technology released by the IEEE specification board in the form of 802.16 – 2004, 802.16e, 802.16j and 802.16g. It explains and discusses the technologies, components and protocols required to facilitate fixed, mobile, MESH and Multihop relay WiMAX deployments.
This course includes the following modules:
Basic Concepts and Definitions
Frequency bands
Channels
Licensed
and license-exempt spectrum
Spectrum
an standardization
Coexistence
Types of
wireless networks
Fixed
and mobile networks
Nomadic
and portable networks
Wireless
network topologies
Antennas
Antenna
parameters
Directional and sectorised antennas
Diversity
Frequency
Spatial
Polarized
Angle
diversity
Multiple
antennas
Adaptive
antenna systems (AAS)
Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO)
Impact
of antenna technologies on protocol design
Antenna
design for fixed and mobile devices
Physical
(PHY)
FEC
Single
Carrier and multicarrier
Duplexing
Multiplexing
Centralized and distributed multiple access schemes
TDMA,
FDMA, OFDMA & CDMA
Data
units
Quality
of Service (QoS)
Medium
access control layer (MAC)
Fragmentation and packing
Automatic repeat request (ARQ)
IEEE 802.16 Architecture
Overview
of the key features
Reference model
Base
station (BS) and subscriber station (SS)
Convergence sublayer (CS) architecture
Framing
and duplexing
Physical
slots (PS) and mini-slots
TDD &
FDD framing
Time
relevance
Subscriber-level adaptive PHY
Fixed
TDD versus ATDD
Framed
PHY
MAC
efficiency
MESH
Directed
mesh
Quality
of Service (QoS)
Security
sublayer
Automatic repeat request (ARQ)
Hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ)
Physical
layer (PHY)
Multipath mitigation
Mandatory and optional components
Bit
ordering
Convergence Sublayers (CSS)
ATM CS
Packet
convergence sublayer (PCS)
Classification
Payload
header suppression (PHS)
MAC Basics
Connections and addressing
Service
flows and service flow identifiers (SFIDs)
CID
allocation
MAC
subheader
Stand-alone MAC headers
BW
request header
MPDU
header
ARQ
Feedback
Data and
management PDU construction
ARQ
Hybrid
ARQ
MAC Operation
Network
entry and initialization
PHY
maintenance
QoS and
service flows
Clock
comparisons
ARQ
operation
HARQ
operation
Security
Security
associations (SAs) and cryptographic suites
Key
management
MESH
Introduction
Logical
mesh
Directed
mesh and point-to-point (PtP)
PHY: Wirelessman-SC
Frame
structure
DL
channel encoding
UL
channel encoding
Control
mechanisms
WirelessMAN – Sca
The Physical Layer
The function of the physical layer
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency
Division Multiplexing
TDD & FDD
Adaptive Antenna Systems (AAS)
WiMAX Variants
OFDM Variants 2-11 GHz
Single Carrier (SC) Variants
PHY: Wirelessman-OFDM
Waveform
construction
Frame
structure
Channel
encoding
Control
mechanisms
Multiple Antenna Systems
Adaptive
antenna systems (AAS)
Open-loop transmit diversity
STC
support in OFDM PHY
STC,
FHDC and MIMO support in OFDMA PHY
Closed-loop transmit diversity
Pre-coding
Antenna
selection
Antenna
grouping
Wireless MESH Networks
Issues
and solutions
Multiradio Multichannel Mesh Networks
IEEE
802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks
Protocols
Routing
protocols
Medium
Access Control in Wireless Mesh Networks
Security
in Wireless Mesh Networks
Scalability in Wireless Mesh Networks
Load
Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks
Cross-layer Optimisation for Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks
Multimedia Communications over Wireless Mesh Networks
Multiple
Antenna Techniques for Wireless Mesh Networks
Standardisation of Wireless LAN Mesh Networks in IEEE 802.11s
IEEE
802.16 WiMAX Mesh Networking
Cognitive Radio & Dynamic Spectrum Management
Cognitive radio concept
Opportunistic distributed spectrum allocation for CRs
Combination of economical and technical incentives
Wireless Mesh Network Case Study: Fire Emergency Management & Market Analysis
Overview
of the proposed WMN
Requirements
Market
analysis
Platform
design and implementation
Validation
Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety and Disaster Recovery Applications
Wireless mesh networks
Public safety and disaster
recovery communications
WMNs for PSDR communications
Key research activities
Mobile WiMAX
Introduction to Mobile WiMAX
Physical
Layer Transmission
Mitigation of Inter-cell interference in Mobile WiMAX
Overview
of Rate Adaptation Algorithms and Simulation Environmental Based on
MIMO Technology in WiMAX Networks
Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Network Architecture
