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

This tutorial covered the following topics:

• 1. Wireless Networking: Trends and Issues
  • Top 10 Recent Networking Developments
  • 2002-2007: Mega-to-Giga Transition
  • Wireless: History
  • Hype Cycles of Technologies
  • Hype Cycle 2004
  • Industry Growth: Formula for Success
  • Telecom Revenue
  • Wireless Data Connections
  • Five Wireless Industry Trends
  • Home Networking Equipment Trends
  • Global Broadband Wireless Equipment
  • Broadband Market by Regions
  • Mobility
  • Personal Broadband: Fixed vs. Mobile
  • Voice and Data Revenues (Korea)

• 2. Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
  • Wireless Radio Channel
  • Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
  • CDMA
  • Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
  • Spectrum
  • Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum
  • DS Spectrum
  • OFDM
  • History of OFDM
  • Advantages of OFDM
  • OFDM: Design considerations
  • OFDMA
  • Scalable OFDMA
  • Adaptive Antenna System (AAS)
  • Smart Antennas
  • MIMO
  • Gigabit Wireless
  • Shannon's Theorem
  • Turbo Codes
  • Space Time Block Codes (STBC)
  • Software Defined Radio

• 3. Ultra Wideband (UWB)
  • Ultra-Wideband
  • History of UWB
  • FCC Rules on UWB
  • Fractional Bandwidth
  • UWB Challenges
  • Advantages of UWB
  • IEEE 802.15 History
  • Direct sequence (DS-UWB)
  • Multi-Band OFDM
  • Multi-Band OFDM PHY
  • Applications of UWB
  • UWB Products

• 4. High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
  • Wi-Fi
  • IEEE 802.11n
  • 11n Technology
  • Major Components of 11n
  • IEEE 802.11n Status
  • Sample IEEE 802.11n Products
  • Hybrid 802.11 Networks: Issues

• 5. WiMAX Overview
  • Broadband Wireless: Tech Challenges
  • Business Challenges
  • Prior Broadband Wireless Efforts
  • MMDS
  • Broadband Wireless Access
  • History of WiMAX
  • IEEE 802.16: Key Features
  • WiMAX
  • Duplexing Options
  • IEEE 802.16 – QoS Classes
  • Spectrum Options
  • WiBro
  • Status of WiMAX
  • Sample WiMAX Subscriber Stations
  • Sample WiMAX Base Stations

• 6. WiMAX Technology
  • 802.16 Standards
  • IEEE 802.16 PHYs
  • IEEE 802.16 Activities
  • IEEE 802.16 PHY: Other Features
  • Subchannelization
  • Subcarrier Permutations
  • WiMAX OFDM Parameters
  • 802.16 Frame Structure
  • Mobile WiMAX Frame
  • Frame Structure
  • Frequency Reuse of 1
  • Frequency Reuse of 3
  • Scheduling and Link Adaptation
  • WiMAX Forum Certification
  • WiMAX Forum Cert. Profiles: Fixed
  • WiMAX Cert. Profiles: Mobile
  • WiMAX AWG Application Classes
  • Effect of MIMO on Capacity
  • Effect of Location and Device Type
  • Effect of Wavelength
  • Effect of TDD

• 7. Other Broadband Access Technologies
  • IEEE 802.11 vs. 802.16
  • Cellular Telephony Generations
  • Birds sing a new tune in wireless era
  • HSDPA
  • HSUPA
  • 1x EV-DO
  • Broadband Access Technologies: Comparison
  • Wibro vs. 3G
  • 3G vs. WiMAX: Throughput
  • 3G vs. WiMAX: Spectral Efficiency
  • 3G vs. WiFi vs. WiMAX
  • LTE
  • Evolution of 3GPP2
  • IEEE 802.20
  • IEEE 802.22