824 Pages 450 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Finding detailed information on WiMAX, from fundamentals to future directions, is challenging at best. While almost everyone engaged in wireless communications, whether they are academics or professionals, has accumulated a variety of information on WiMAX over time, a comprehensive, single-source would be invaluable to have. The WiMAX Handbook is that resource, presenting what you need to know about this innovative technology.

    VOLUME I: WiMAX APPLICATIONS
    WiMAX Past, Present, and Future: An Evolutionary Look at the History and Future of Standardized Broadband Wireless Access, Jack L. Burbank and William T. Kasch

    Overview of WiMAX Standards and Applications, L. Wu and K. Sandrasegaran

    WiMAX Technology for Broadband Wireless Communication, Neena Gupta, Gurjit Kaur

    VoIP over WiMax, Mainak Chatterjee and Shamik Sengupta

    WiMAX Technology for Home Access, Giselle M. Galvan-Tejada and Erickson Trejo-Reyes

    WiMAX Enables Cyber Extension to Rural Communities, Santhi K. R., Senthil Kumaran G, and
    Albert Butare

    WiMax over GSM for Basic IP Access in African Rural Areas, D. Chatelain and B.J. van Wyk

    Applications of Wi-Fi / WiMAX technologies in the Emerging World, Vinoth Gunasekaran and Fotios C. Harmantzis

    Connectivity and Load Distribution in WiMAX-Based Multi-Hop Backhaul Networks, Sayandev Mukherjee and Dan Avidor

    Providing QoS to Real and Interactive Data Applications in WiMAX Mesh Networks, Vinod Sharma and Harish Shetiya

    VOLUME II: WiMAX: STANDARDS AND SECURITY
    Standards
    The Emerging Wireless Internet Architecture: Competing and Complimentary Standards to WiMAX Technology, William T. Kasch and Jack L. Burbank

    IEEE 802.16 Standards and Amendments, Najah Abu Ali and Hossam Hassanein

    MAC Layer Protocol in WiMAX Systems, Maode Ma and Yan Zhang

    Scheduling and Performance Analysis of QoS for IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Network, James T. Yu

    WiMAX Performance and Propagation Characteristics, Thomas Schwengler,

    Mobility Support for IEEE 802.16e System, Hyun-Ho Choi and Dong-Ho Cho

    Measured Signal-Aware Mechanism for Fast Handover in WiMAX Networks, Jenhui Chen and Chih-Chieh Wang

    802.16 Mesh Networks, Petar Djukic and Shahrokh Valaee

    WiMAX Testing, Rana Ejaz Ahmed

    Security
    An Overview of WiMax Security, Eduardo B. Fernandez and Michael VanHilst

    Privacy and Security in WiMAX Networks, Amitabh Mishra and Nolan Gore

    WiMAX Security: Privacy and Key Management, Nirwan Ansari, Chao Zhang, Edwin Hou, and Yuanqiu Luo

    VOLUME III: TECHNOLOGIES, PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, AND QOS

    Technologies
    Design of Baseband Processors for WiMAX Systems, Anders Nilsson and Dake Liu

    Fractal Based Methodologies for WiMAX Antennas Design, Renzo Azaro, Edoardo Zeni, Massimo Donelli, and Andrea Massa

    Space-Time Coding and Application in WiMAX, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Robert Calderbank, Jimmy Chui, Sushanta Das, and Suhas Diggavi,

    Exploiting Diversity in MIMO-OFDM Systems for Broadband Wireless Communications, Weifeng Su, Zoltan Safar, and K. Liu

    Performance Analysis
    Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.16 Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems, R. Jayaparvathy and MC Neil Ivan

    System Performance Analysis for the Mesh Mode of IEEE 802.16, Min Cao and Qian Zhang

    Performance Analysis and Simulations Results under Mobile Environments, Pankaj Das and Mishal Algharabally

    QoS
    IEEE 802.16 Multiple Access Control: Resources Allocation for Reservation Based Traffic,
    Ahmed Doha and Hossam Hassanein

    Scheduling Algorithms for OFDMA based WiMAX Systems with QoS Constraints, Raj Iyengar, Koushik Kar, Biplab Sikdar, and Xiang Luo

    Resource Allocation and Admission Control Using Fuzzy Logic for OFDMA-Based IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Networks, Dusit Niyato and Ekram Aee

    Biography

    Ahson, Syed A.; Ilyas, Mohammad

    "...a wide area of WiMAX technology covered in this book (the QoS issue has been addressed especially well) along with the diverse complexity of the information presented, spanning from general information to the academic research level, make the book suitable for a wide variety of readers including academic researchers, network planners, engineers, and students."

    —Krzysztof Maderak, in IEEE Communications Magazine