Wimax (802.

16)
A Road to Mobile Life
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 History of Wireless
 Radio- Jagdish Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi.
 Wireless- First patent by Nikola Tesla.
 Wireless- Term used for everything for long time

Modern Era
 Wireless- is a method of communication that uses low-
powered radio waves to transmit data between devices.
 Low Powered – Free
 High Powered – Government Regulated
 Some Wireless Standards
 Bluetooth
 DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications)
 DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications)
 HIPERLAN
 HIPERMAN
 IEEE 802.11
 IrDA
 RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
 WiFi
 WiMAX
 xMax
 ZigBee
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 Wimax
 Worldwide Interoperability for
Microwave Access
 A certification mark for products that pass
conformity and interoperability tests for the IEEE
802.16 standards
 Run by Wimax Forum
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 Advantages Over Wifi
 Improved Performance

 Much Greater Distances

 Much Better MAC

 LNOS Ability
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 New MAC Structure
 A Regular Wifi Uses Contention access
Which means competing for AP.

 Wimax uses scheduling MAC

Much Better for QOS required services EX: VOIP , IPTV
 Mesh Networking
Subscriber station and Base station at same time

 OFDMA
 New MAC Structure (cont.)
 Supports ATM

 Packet based Control

 MAC is flexible enough to efficiently carry any

traffic type. Payload header suppression,
packing, and fragmentation, the
convergence sublayers and MAC.
 Frequency
 Originally Working 10 to 66ghz
FDD or TDD.

 Now supporting 2 to 11ghz with

802.11a. OFDMA with TDMA access.
 NLOS
 Wifi only work on Line of Sight Areas

 NON Line Of Sight capability in 2-

11ghz. OFDMA.
 Usage Areas
 Broadband Internet Access

 Voip , IPTV services

 Cellular Phones
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 Competitors
 UMTS

 HIPERMAN
 Content
 History Of Wireless
 Wimax
 Advantages Over Wifi
 MAC Structure
 Usage Areas
 Competitors
 Conclusion
 Conclusion
 Framework for the evolution of
wireless broadband

 Everything will be coordinated with

Wimax