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The growing demand for mobile Internet and wireless multimedia applications has motivated the development of broadband wireless access technologies in recent years [1]. Mobile WiMAX was the first mobile broadband wireless access solution based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard [2].
The paper reports on history of WiMAX and mobile WiMAX evaluation. There are three key themes examined on this report. These are Mobile WiMAX and its Historical development, Mobile WiMAX Evaluation, and Advantages of Mobile WiMAX.
Keyworde: WiMAX, mobile WiMAX, IEEE 802.16e, IEEE 802.16m, IMT-2000, IMTAdvanced.
Received November 21, 2012
Introduction
The growing demand for mobile Internet and wireless multimedia applications has motivated the development of broadband wireless access technologies in recent years [1]. IEEE 802.16, a solution to broadband wireless access (BWA) commonly known as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), is a recent wireless broadband standard that has promised high bandwidth over long-range transmission [3]. WiMAX is a wireless communications standard designed to provide 30 to 40 megabit-persecond data rates, with the 2011 update providing up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations. It is a part of a "fourth generation" or 4G, of wireless- communication technology [4, 5].
Mobile WiMAX was the first mobile broadband wireless access solution based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard [2]. Mobile WiMAX was successfully adopted by ITU as one of the IMT-2000 technologies in November 2007. Since then mobile WiMAX (a.k.a. IP-OFDMA) has officially become a major global cellular wireless standard along with 3GPP UMTS/HSPA and 3GPP2 CDMA/EVDO. Mobile WiMAX is an OFDM-based technology available for deployment today [6, 7], and new WiMAX devices come to market at much reduced cost than that of current 3G solutions. In December 2006 the IEEE launched an effort to further evolve the IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN-OFDMA specification. This amendment, known as 802.16m, is designed to meet or exceed the requirements of IMT-Advanced (the 4th generation of cellular systems) [8].
In October 2008 over 260 service providers deployed fixed, portable and mobile WiMAX networks in 110 countries [9]. WiMAX Forum was announced that WiMAX Service Providers offer 430 million people or points-of-presence (POPs) globally in 2009 and were on a path to nearly double to 800 million people by the end of 2010 [10]. Furthermore over 11000 deployments made...