WirelessMAN [electronic resource] : inside the IEEE 802.16 standard for wireless metropolitan area networks / Carl Eklund ... [et al.].

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-391) and index.

ch. 1. -- Broadband wireless access (BWA) -- Commercial fixed broadband wireless: fiber extension -- Residential fixed broadband wireless: digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modem alternative -- Quality of service (QoS) -- Throughput requirements -- ch. 2. -- IEEE 802.16 Standards -- Background -- IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) -- IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) -- Standards development in IEEE 802 -- IEEE 802.16 Working Group: Overview -- IEEE 802.16 Working Group: History -- Technical progress in IEEE 802.16 Working Group -- Coexistence: IEEE Std 802.16.2TM -- ch. 3. -- Basic concepts and definitions -- Frequency bands -- Types of wireless networks -- Wireless network topologies -- RF propagation -- Antennas -- Physical layer (PRY) -- Duplexing, multiplexing, and multiple access -- Data units -- Quality of service (QoS) -- Medium access control layer (MAC) -- ch. 4. -- IEEE 802.16 architecture -- Reference model -- Base station (BS) and subscriber station (SS) -- Convergence sublayer (CS) architecture -- Framing and duplexing -- Subscriber-level adaptive PRY -- Framed PHY -- MAC efficiency -- Mesh -- Directed mesh -- Quality of service (QoS) -- Security sublayer -- Automatic repeat request (ARQ) -- Physical layer (PHY) -- Mandatory and optional components -- Bit ordering -- ch. 5. -- Convergence sublayers (CSs) -- ATM CS -- Packet convergence sub layer (PCS) -- ch. 6. -- MAC basics -- Connections and addressing -- MAC headers and subheaders -- Data and management PDU construction -- ARQ -- Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) -- ch. 7. -- MAC operation -- Network entry and initialization -- PHY maintenance -- QoS and service flows -- Clock comparison -- ARQ operation -- HARQ operation -- ch. 8. -- Security -- Security associations (SAs) and cryptographic suites -- Key management -- ch. 9. -- Mesh -- Introduction -- Logical mesh -- Directed mesh and point-to-point (PtP) -- ch. 10. -- PHY: WirelessMAN-SC -- Frame structure -- DL channel encoding -- UL channel encoding -- Control mechanisms -- WirelessMAN-SCa -- ch. 11. -- PHY: WirelessMAN-OFDM -- Waveform construction -- Frame structure -- Channel encoding -- Control mechanisms -- ch. 12. -- PHY: WirelessMAN-OFDMA -- Introduction -- Frame structure -- Channel encoding -- Control mechanisms -- ch. 13. -- Multiple antenna systems -- Adaptive antenna systems (AAS) -- Open-loop transmit diversity -- Closed-loop transmit diversity -- ch. 14. -- Performance analysis -- Introduction -- WirelessMAN-OFDM, fixed operation -- WirelessMAN-OFDM, mobile operation -- WirelessMAN-OFDMA, mobile operation -- ch. 15. -- Conformance and interoperability -- The WiMAX Forum -- Conformance test standards for WirelessMAN-SC -- The WiMAX Forum's move to lower frequencies -- Lower frequency profiles and test specifications -- WiMAX Forum conformance testing for fixed access -- WiMAX Forum and mobile broadband wireless access -- ch. 16. -- Related standards -- IEEE Std 802.11 -- IEEE 802.20 Working Group -- IEEE 802.22 Working Group -- ETSI BRAN -- Other regional standards activities -- International Telecommunications Union (ITU) -- Appendix A. -- IEEE 802.16 headers, subheaders, and management messages.