OFDM Towards Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (Artech House Universal Personal Communications)

217 Pages·2007·2.04 MB·English

by  Uma Shanker Jha

OFDM Towards Fixed and Mobile
Broadband Wireless Access
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OFDM Towards Fixed and Mobile
Broadband Wireless Access
Uma Shanker Jha
Ramjee Prasad
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To my wife Mamta and our sons Abhisek and Sachin
—Uma Shanker Jha
To my wife Jyoti, our daughter Neeli, our sons Anand and Rajeev,
our granddaughters, Sneha and Ruchika, and our grandson Akash
—Ramjee Prasad

Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Wireless Network Classifications 3
1.1.1 Range 4
1.1.2 Signaling 15
1.1.3 Infrastructure 16
1.2 WiMAX 17
1.3 Wireless Broadband (WiBro) 19
1.4 Comparative Analysis of New High–Data Rate
Wireless Communication Technologies with WiMAX 22
1.5 Preview of the Book 23
References 25
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2 OFDM Systems and Issues 29
2.1 Introduction 29
2.2 OFDM Concept 30
2.3 OFDM Model 33
2.4 Time-Frequency Interpretation 36
2.4.1 ImpairmentIssuesinOFDMSystems 38
2.4.2 FrequencyOffset 38
2.4.3 TimingOffset 43
2.4.4 CarrierPhaseNoise 46
2.4.5 MultipathIssues 46
2.4.6 ISIIssues 50
2.4.7 PAPR 59
2.5 OFDMA 65
2.5.1 Frequency-HoppingOFDMA 66
2.5.2 OFDMASystemDescription 67
References 81
3 Broadband Wireless Access Fundamentals 85
3.1 Introduction 85
3.2 Basics of BWA 87
3.2.1 BWAConsiderations 88
3.2.2 FrequencyBandAllocationforBWA 93
3.2.3 WillFixedWiMAXDie? 94
3.3 Wireless Broadband Landscape 96
3.3.1 WWANs 97
3.4 Global Deployment and Interoperability 99
3.4.1 AirInterfaceandPHYConsiderations 100
3.4.2 Coverage 101
3.4.3 QoS 102
3.5 Deployment Considerations 103
Contents ix
3.6 Issues 104
References 104
4 Fixed Broadband Wireless Access 107
4.1 Introduction 107
4.1.1 10-to66-GHzLicensedBand 108
4.1.2 FrequenciesBelow11GHz 108
4.1.3 License-ExemptFrequenciesBelow11GHz
(Primarily5to6GHz) 109
4.1.4 ReferenceModel 109
4.2 Driving Factors of FBWA 110
4.2.1 Needs 110
4.2.2 Advantages 112
4.2.3 MarketSegmentsforFBWA 112
4.2.4 Applications 113
4.3 MAC 117
4.3.1 Service-SpecificCS 118
4.3.2 MACCPS 119
4.3.3 SecuritySublayer 130
4.4 PHY Layer 135
4.4.1 WirelessMAN-SCPHYSpecification 135
4.4.2 WirelessMAN-SCaPHY 143
4.4.3 WirelessMAN-OFDMPHY 146
4.4.4 WirelessMAN-OFDMAPHY 150
4.5 FBWA Deployment Issues 153
4.6 Conclusions 154
References 155
5 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access 157
5.1 Introduction 157
5.2 IEEE 802.16e Standard 161