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

This tutorial covers the following topics:

• Part I: Wireless Revenue Trends
  • Telecom Revenue
  • Wireless Data Connections
  • Home Networking Equipment Trends
  • Global Broadband Wireless Equipment
  • Broadband Market by Regions
  • Personal Broadband: Fixed vs. Mobile
  • Voice and Data Revenues (Korea)
  • Summary: Wireless Revenue Trends
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• Part II: Recent Developments in Wireless PHY
  • CDMA
  • Multiple Access Methods
  • 1. OFDM
  • Advantages of OFDM
  • OFDM: Design considerations
  • OFDMA
  • Scalable OFDMA (SOFDMA)
  • 2. Beamforming
  • 3. MIMO
  • MIMO
  • Gigabit Wireless
  • Cooperative MIMO
  • 4. Space Time Block Codes (STBC)
  • 5. Turbo Codes
  • 6. Time Division Duplexing (TDD)
  • 7. Software Defined Radio
  • Body Area Networks (BANs)
  • Summary: Wireless PHY
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• Part III: Ultra Wideband (UWB)
  • Ultra-Wideband
  • Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
  • UWB
  • Advantages of UWB
  • Multi-Band OFDM
  • Direct sequence (DS-UWB)
  • Applications of UWB
  • Summary
• Part IV: High Throughput WiFi: 802.11n
  • Cantenna
  • 11n Technology
  • Major Components of 11n
  • IEEE 802.11n Status
  • Sample IEEE 802.11n Products
  • Hybrid 802.11 Networks: Issues
  • Summary: 802.11n
• Part V: WiMAX
  • Broadband Wireless Access
  • Cavemen of 2020
  • Prior Attempts: LMDS & MMDS
  • IEEE 802.16: Key Features
  • WiMAX
  • IEEE 802.16 – QoS Classes
  • Spectrum Options
  • WiBro
  • Status of WiMAX
  • Sample WiMAX Subscriber Stations
  • Sample WiMAX Base Stations
  • WiMAX Technical Solutions
  • Summary: WiMAX
• Part VI: Other Broadband Technologies
  • IEEE 802.11 vs. 802.16
  • Birds sing a new tune in wireless era
  • Cellular Telephony Generations
  • 3G Technologies: Bit Rates
  • 3G Technologies: PHY
  • 4G: IMT-Advanced
  • IEEE 802.16m
  • 700 MHz
  • Evolution of 3GPP2
  • WiMAX Competition: Summary
• Overall Summary