WiMAX Evolution

Contents List of Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms I Introduction 1 Introduction to WiMAX Technology Wonil Roh and Vladimir Yanover References II WiMAX Validation: Validating Current Fixed and MobileWiMAX Through Advanced Testbeds 2 WiMAX Performance in Practice Kostas Pentikousis, Esa Piri, Jarno Pinola and Ilkka Harjula References. III Novel Scenarios 3 NovelWiMAX Scenarios for Future BroadbandWireless Access Networks Pedro Neves, Kostas Pentikousis, Susana Sargento, Marília Curado, Paulo Simões and Francisco Fontes References 4 Pricing in WiMAX Networks Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Jie Hui and Michael Devetsikiotis References IV Advanced WiMAX Architectures 5 WiMAX Femtocells Chris Smart, Clare Somerville and Doug Pulley References 6 Cooperative Principles in WiMAX Qi Zhang, Frank H.P. Fitzek and Marcos D. Katz (802.16j) References viii CONTENTS 7 The Role of WiMAX Technology in Distributed Wide Area Monitoring Applications Francesco Chiti, Romano Fantacci, Leonardo Maccari, Dania Marabissi and Daniele Tarchi References 8 WiMAX Mesh Architectures and Network Coding Parag S. Mogre, Matthias Hollick, Christian Schwingenschloegl, Andreas Ziller and Ralf Steinmetz References 9 ASN-GWHigh Availability through Cooperative Networking in Mobile WiMAX Deployments Alexander Bachmutsky V WiMAX Extensions 10 Robust Header Compression forWiMAX Femto Cells Frank H.P. Fitzek, Gerrit Schulte, Esa Piri, Jarno Pinola, Marcos D. Katz, Jyrki Huusko, Kostas Pentikousis and Patrick Seeling CONTENTS References 11 A WiMAX Cross-layer Framework for Next Generation Networks Pedro Neves, Susana Sargento, Ricardo Matos, Giada Landi, Kostas Pentikousis, Marília Curado and Francisco Fontes References 12 Speech Quality Aware Resource Control for Fixed and Mobile WiMAX Thomas Michael Bohnert, Dirk Staehle and Edmundo Monteiro References 13 VoIP overWiMAX Rath Vannithamby and Roshni Srinivasan References 14 WiMAX User Data Load Balancing Alexander Bachmutsky 15 Enabling Per-flow and System-wide QoS and QoE in Mobile WiMAX Thomas Casey, Xiongwen Zhao, Nenad Veselinovic, Jari Nurmi and Riku Jäntti References VI WiMAX Evolution and Future Developments 16 MIMO Technologies forWiMAX Systems: Present and Future Chan-Byoung Chae, Kaibin Huang and Takao Inoue NonlinearProcessing LinearProcessing References 17 Hybrid Strategies for Link Adaptation Exploiting Several Degrees of Freedom inWiMAX Systems Suvra Sekhar Das, Muhammad Imadur Rahman and Yuanye Wang References 18 ApplyingWiMAX in New Scenarios: Limitations of the Physical Layer and Possible Solutions Ilkka Harjula, Paola Cardamone, Matti Weissenfelt, Mika Lasanen, Sandrine Boumard, Aaron Byman and Marcos D. Katz References 19 Application of Radio-over-Fiber in WiMAX: Results and Prospects Juan Luis Corral, Roberto Llorente, Valentín Polo, Borja Vidal, Javier Martí, Jonás Porcar, David Zorrilla and Antonio José Ramírez References. CONTENTS 20 Network Planning and its Part in FutureWiMAX Systems 399 Avraham Freedman and Moshe Levin References 21 WiMAX Network Automation: Neighbor Discovery, Capabilities Negotiation, Auto-configuration and Network Topology Learning Alexander Bachmutsky References 22 An Overview of Next GenerationMobile WiMAX: Technology and Prospects Sassan Ahmadi References Index