List of Figures xxvii List of Tables xxxi Acronyms and Abbreviations xxxiii Chapter 1 Broadband wireless access (BWA): Applicable market segments and requirements 1 Commercial fixed broadband wireless: fiber extention 6 Residential fixed broadband wireless: digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modem alternative 8 Quality of service (QoS) 11 Throughout requirements 11 Chapter 2 IEEE 802.16 standards: The working group and documents 13 Background 13 IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) 13 IEEE 802(R) LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) 15 Standards development in IEEE 802 16 IEEE 802.16 Working Group: Overview 19 IEEE 802.16 Working Group: History 19 Technical progress in IEEE 802.16 Working Group 21 Coexistence: IEEE Std 802.16.2 27 Chapter 3 Basic concepts and definitions: Wireless protocol and communication concepts 29 Frequency bands 30 Types of wireless networks 33 Wireless network topologies 34 RF propagation 36 Antennas 40 Physical layer (PHY) 48 Duplexing, multiplexing, and multiple access 49 Data units 56 Quality of service (QoS) 57 Medium access control layer (MAC) 62 Chapter 4 IEEE 802-16 architecture: Overview and key features 67 Reference model 68 Base station (BS) and subscriber station (SS) 71 Convergence sublayer (CS) architecture 73 Framing and duplexing 74 Subscriber-level adaptive PHY 84 Framed PHY 85 MAC efficiency 85 Mesh 87 Directed mesh 88 Quality of service (QoS) 88 Security sublayer 89 Automatic repeat request (ARQ) 90 Physical layer (PHY) 93 Mandatory and optional components 94 Bit ordering 98 Chapter 5 Convergence sublayers (CSs): Support for multiple protocol transport 99 ATM CS 99 Packet convergence sublayer (PCS) 101 Chapter 6 MAC basics: Concepts, connections, formats, and headers 107 Connections and addressing 107 MAC headers and subheaders 113 MAC header demulitplexing 118 MAC subheaders 119 ARQ feedback 125 Data and management PDU construction 125 Simple MPDU 125 Subheader ordering 126 ARQ blocks 127 Fragmentation 129 Packing 131 Concatenation 135 MPDU encryption and CRC 135 MAC management 136 ARQ 137 Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) 143 Chapter 7 MAC operation: Radio control, QoS, and ARQ 149 Network entry and initialization 149 PHY maintenance 155 QoS and service flows 171 Interactions between QoS, CAC, and adaptive PHY 181 Mulitcast connection 189 BW request/grant 190 Scheduling 193 Unicast polling 197 Broadcast polling 199 Mulitcast polling groups 200 Clock comparison 201 ARQ operation 203 ARQ protocol messages 206 BSN comparison 207 ARQ transmitter 207 ARQ receiver 210 ARQ state machine reset and resynchronization 213 Interaction with scheduler 215 HARQ operation 216 Chapter 8 Security: PKM protocol and cryptographic methods 219 Security associations (SAs) and cryptographic suites 219 Key management 224 Chapter 9 Mesh: MAC and PHY extentions for mesh 229 Introduction 229 Logical mesh 232 Directed mesh and point-to-point (PtP) 244 Chapter 10 PHY: WirelessMAN-SC: Single-carrier PHY for 10-66 GHz 247 Chapter 11 PHY: WirelessMAN-OFDM: Multicarrier PHY for frequencies below 11 GHz 261 Waveform construction 261 Frame structure 272 Channel encoding 277 Control mechanisms 282 Chapter 12 PHY: WirelessMAN-OFDMA: Multicarrier PHY for frequencies below 11 GHz 287 Introduction 288 Frame structure 300 Channel encoding 302 Control mechanisms 306 Chapter 13 Multiple antenna systems: Support for advanced antennas 311 Adaptive antenna systems (AAS) 311 Open-loop transmit diversity 321 Closed-loop transmit diversity 324 Chapter 14 Performance analysis: MAC and PHY performance and throughout 327 Introduction 327 WirelessMAN-OFDM, fixed operation 327 Capacity analysis 327 MAC performance 329 WirelessMAN-OFDM, mobile operation 338 WirelessMAN-OFDMA, mobile operation 343 Chapter 15 Conformance and interoperability: Conformance standards and testing 357 Chapter 16 Related standards: Other wireless standards with similar applications 365 IEEE Std 802.11 365 IEEE 802.20 working Group 373 IEEE 802.22 Working Group 374 ETSI BRAN 375 Other regional standards activities 378 Appendix A IEEE 802.16 headers, subheaders, and management messages 383 Bibliography 387 Index 393
Carl Eklund received his M.S. in engineering physics from
Helsinki University of Technology in 1996. He joined the
Communication Systems Laboratory of Nokia Research Center in 1998,
working mainly on radio protocol design and standardization. In the
IEEE 802.16 effort, he chaired the MAC Task Group that developed
the IEEE 802.16 medium access control layer (MAC) protocol for IEEE
Std 802.16-2001. He also served as the technical editor for the
protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS) and test suite
structure and test purposes (TSS&TP) specifications for IEEE
Std 802.16-2001. Eklund currently is a principal engineer in the
Radio Communications Laboratory of Nokia Research Center, Helsinki,
Finland. Since October 2005, he has been heading the research and
standardization program for WiMAX and IEEE 802.16 in Nokia.
Roger B. Marks initiated, in 1998, the effort leading to the
formation of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless
Access, chairing it since inception and serving as Technical Editor
of the group's first two standards. He also serves actively on the
IEEE 802 Executive Committee and holds the position of China
Liaison Official. Marks is a physicist with the (U.S.) National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado,
USA. He received his A.B. in physics in 1980 from Princeton
University and his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1988 from Yale
University. A Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer, Marks developed the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference
and chaired it from 1996 through 1999. He is the author of over 90
publications and the recipient of numerous awards, including the
Individual Governmental Vision Award from the Wireless
Communications Association and the IEEE Technical Field Award in
measurement technology. He has received the U.S. Department of
Commerce Gold, Silver (three times), and Bronze Medals.
Subbu Ponnuswamy was one of the early participants in the
IEEE 802.16 Working Group and a contributor to the IEEE 802.16 and
IEEE 802.11 standards. He is also a coauthor of a WiMAX course for
development engineers, offered by Doceotech. He has many years of
industry experience in the design and development of wireless local
area network (LAN) and metropolitan area network (MAN) products,
including those based on the IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11 standards.
As the director of engineering at Kiwi Networks, Ponnuswamy led the
design and development of interference-resilient IEEE 802.16 and
IEEE 802.11 systems in the license-exempt bands for indoor and
outdoor applications. He also led IEEE 802.11 MAC
application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and software
development at Vivato for smart antenna systems. During his tenure
at Malibu Networks, he designed and developed a
qualityof-service-centric broadband wireless MAC. He has also held
various technical positions with Honeywell, Sequent Computer
Systems, and Lincom Wireless. He is currently with Aruba Networks.
Ponnuswamy is the author of many publications and patents in the
areas of wireless communication, realtime systems, and
multiprocessor communication networks. He graduated with an M.S. in
computer engineering from Wayne State University and a B.E. in
electronics and communication engineering from the University of
Madras, India. He is a member of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Communications Society.
Kenneth L. Stanwood is president and chief executive officer
of Cygnus Communications, which makes products for wireless
multimedia distribution. He was previously chief technology officer
of Ensemble Communications, which produced local multipoint
distribution services (LMDS) equipment and provided key technology
to IEEE 802.16 and WiMAX. As a representative of Ensemble, Stanwood
was one of the founders of the WiMAX Forum and served on its board
of directors. Stanwood is vice-chair of the IEEE 802.16 Working
Group and has been involved with IEEE 802.16 and the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Broadband Radio
Access Networks (BRAN) Technical Committee for over 6 years. He was
a primary designer of the IEEE 802.16 MAC. He holds 11 patents and
has numerous patent applications, all related to broadband wireless
access. He received his master's degree from Stanford
University.
Nico J.M. van Waes received an M.S.E.E from the Technical
University Delft in the Netherlands in 1994 and a Ph.D. from New
Jersey Institute of Technology in 1998. He joined the Wireless
Router Division of Nokia Networks in 1999 as a systems engineer,
working primarily on physical layer (PHY) and radio frequency (RF)
issues as well as standardization. From 1999 till 2004, van Waes
held various standards-related public positions such as chief
technical editor of IEEE Std 802.16a, IEEE P802.16.2a, and early
versions of IEEE P802.16d; area coordinator and editor for ETSI
BRAN HiperMAN; and chair of the OFDM Forum's fixed wireless access
(FWA) working group. From 2004 till 2005, he led Nokia Research
Center's efforts in IEEE P802.11n standardization. Since early
2006, van Waes has been a manager with Nokia IPR, responsible among
others for the IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11 portfolios. He has half
a dozen patents filed and is the author of several published
papers.
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