A performance study of wireless broadband access (WiMAX)

Author

Al-Adwany, Maan A S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 30 2010-Dec. 2 2010

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

324

Abstract

WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) is one of the wireless broadband access technologies which supplies broadband services to clients, but it surpasses other technologies by its coverage area, where one base station can cover a small city. In this paper, WiMAX technology is studied by exploring its basic concepts, applications, and advantages / disadvantages. Also a MATLAB simulator is used to verify the operation of the WiMAX system under various channel impairments and for variety of modulation schemes. From the simulation results, we found that WiMAX system works well in both AWGN and multipath fading channels, but under certain constraints that are addressed in this paper.

Keywords

AWGN channels; WiMax; fading channels; multipath channels; AWGN channels; MATLAB simulator; WiMAX technology; base station; broadband services; multipath fading channels; wireless broadband access technology; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Bit error rate; Fading; Modulation; OFDM; Signal to noise ratio; WiMAX; IEEE 802.16; WiMAX; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy, Power and Control (EPC-IQ), 2010 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Basrah

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-9568330-0-6

Type

conf

Filename

5767335