WiMAX Training Fundamentals:

WiMAX Training Fundamentals or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Training Course (Online, Onsite, and Classroom Live!)

WiMAX Training Fundamentals or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Training gives a two-day briefing on the key characteristics of the variety of networks that feature WiMAX-standard equipment. Whether you are planning fixed or mobile services, backhaul or access services, or Line of Sight or non-Line-of-Sight services, this WiMAX Training Fundamentals or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Training course can give you an appreciation of the opportunities, issues, and obstacles to each application.

What’s Included?

• 2 days of WiMAX Training Fundamentals with an expert instructor
• WiMAX Fundamentals Electronic Course Guide
• Certificate of Completion
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Resources:

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Customize It:

• If you are familiar with some aspects of this WiMAX Training Fundamentals course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
• We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the WiMAX Training Fundamentals course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
• If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the WiMAX Training Fundamentals course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.

Audience/Target Group

The target audience for this training course:

• This course is aimed at technical professionals who are familiar with 2G, 3G, and/or other 4G (such as LTE) wireless technologies and desire a quick overview of WiMAX technology. For a more in-depth treatment of the topic, please consider WIMAX-C3DC, the three-day counterpart of this course.

Class Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this WiMAX Fundamentals course are:

• Familiarity with 2G/3G technologies or LTE.

Objectives:

After completing this WiMAX Fundamentals course, attendees will be able to:

• Briefing on the key characteristics of the variety of networks that feature WiMAX-standard equipment. Whether you are planning fixed or mobile services, backhaul or access services, or Line of Sight or non-Line-of-Sight services, this course can give you an appreciation of the opportunities, issues, and obstacles to each application.

Course Syllabus:

Review of Modulation Schemes

• Complex envelope representation
• BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM
• BER performance comparison
• Coherent detection

Propagation Channel Modeling

• AWGN, Rayleigh/Ricean fading
• Delay spread, frequency selectivity
• Lognormal fading
• Path loss comparison (indoors vs. outdoors)

Performance Improvement Methods

• FEC (convolutional) codes
• Antenna diversity (receive – MRC and optimal combining)
• Antenna diversity (transmit – STBC, MIMO)
• Adaptive Antenna Arrays (AAA)

Multipath Mitigation

• TDMA vs. CDMA vs. OFDMA
• Discussion of throughput vs. data rate

OFDM Principles

• Transmission and modulation (IFFT, S/P)
• Sub-carrier discussion
• Reception and demodulation (FFT, P/S)
• Cyclic prefix
• Comparison with 3GPP LTE (uplink and downlink)

IEEE 802.16 Physical Layer

• HARQ (comparison with HSDPA and LTE)
• Uplink channels discussion
• Adaptive modulation
• TDD and FDD principles
• Downlink channels discussion
• Bandwidth tradeoff
• DL/UL subframe time ratios
• Segments and sectoring
• MIMO/AAS scenarios
  • General overview
  • How are these modes selected and enabled?
• Power control

WiMax Signaling Discussions

• Higher layer signaling
  • Handover Procedures
    • Fast handover description and when it is used
    • Overall handover sequence
• Sleep/idle modes
  • When is it used
  • How is it initiated and how to exit mode
• MAC functionality
• Security architecture:  Authentication, integrity
  • Explanation of overall architecture and security protocols, in general
  • Time of establishment  and which security associations are used when
  • What is encrypted besides MAC PDU
  • CLEAR’s security and encryption package

System Analysis

• Network architecture
• Operating frequency bands
• Link budget

Wrap-up: Course Recap and Discussion

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