WiMAX Evolution

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

I Introduction

1 Introduction to WiMAX Technology

Wonil Roh and Vladimir Yanover

References

II WiMAX Validation: Validating Current Fixed and

MobileWiMAX Through Advanced Testbeds

2 WiMAX Performance in Practice

Kostas Pentikousis, Esa Piri, Jarno Pinola and Ilkka Harjula

References

III Novel Scenarios

3 NovelWiMAX Scenarios for Future BroadbandWireless Access Networks

Pedro Neves, Kostas Pentikousis, Susana Sargento, Marília Curado, Paulo Simões

and Francisco Fontes

References

4 Pricing in WiMAX Networks

Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Jie Hui and Michael Devetsikiotis

References

IV Advanced WiMAX Architectures

5 WiMAX Femtocells

Chris Smart, Clare Somerville and Doug Pulley

References

6 Cooperative Principles in WiMAX

Qi Zhang, Frank H.P. Fitzek and Marcos D. Katz

(802.16j)

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7 The Role of WiMAX Technology in Distributed Wide Area Monitoring

Applications

Francesco Chiti, Romano Fantacci, Leonardo Maccari, Dania Marabissi and

Daniele Tarchi

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8 WiMAX Mesh Architectures and Network Coding

Parag S. Mogre, Matthias Hollick, Christian Schwingenschloegl, Andreas Ziller

and Ralf Steinmetz

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9 ASN-GWHigh Availability through Cooperative Networking in Mobile

WiMAX Deployments

Alexander Bachmutsky

V WiMAX Extensions

10 Robust Header Compression forWiMAX Femto Cells

Frank H.P. Fitzek, Gerrit Schulte, Esa Piri, Jarno Pinola, Marcos D. Katz,

Jyrki Huusko, Kostas Pentikousis and Patrick Seeling

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11 A WiMAX Cross-layer Framework for Next Generation Networks

Pedro Neves, Susana Sargento, Ricardo Matos, Giada Landi, Kostas Pentikousis,

Marília Curado and Francisco Fontes

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12 Speech Quality Aware Resource Control for Fixed and Mobile WiMAX

Thomas Michael Bohnert, Dirk Staehle