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Broadband Wireless Access Solutions - Progressive Challenges and Potential Valueof Next Generation Mobile Networks

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The growth in mobile communication will accelerate over the next years. Today most of the mobile subscribers use cellular services only. But this will change in the near future towards broadband wireless access services like WiFi and WiMAX. This paper describes a fundamental overview of the broadband wireless access technologies and outlines the market view, major trends and introduces OFDM technologies. New developments for integration of broadband wireless access into the operators' infrastructure are also discussed.

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Abbreviations

3G...:

3rd Generation (mobile networks)

AAA:

Authentication, Authorization, Accounting

AP:

Access point. An AP operates within a specific frequency spectrum and uses an 802.11 standard specified modulation technique. It informs the wireless clients to the wireless network and coordinates the wireless clients' use of wired resources.

BB:

Broad Band

BWA:

Broadband Wireless Access

BWS:

Broadband Wireless Solutions

CAP:

Competitive Access Provider

CCS7:

Common Channel Signaling Number 7

CPE:

Customer Premises Equipment

DFS:

Dynamic Frequency Selection

DSL:

Digital subscriber line

DSSS:

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

FDD:

Frequency Division Duplexing

FITL:

Fiber in the Loop

FNO:

Fixed Network Operator

GSM:

Global System for Mobile Telecommunications; European standard for 2nd generation mobile cellular telecommunication systems

HLR:

Home Location Register; node where subscriber-specific data is permanently stored in GSM systems

HSPDA:

High Speed Downlink Packet Access

IAPP:

Inter Access Point Protocol

IEEE:

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IP:

Internet Protocol

ISM:

Industrial, Scientific, Medical; a worldwide available licence-free frequency band around 2.4 GHz

ISP:

Internet Service Provider

IT:

Information Technology

LAN:

Local Area Network

MAC:

Medium Access Control

MAC address:

Media access control address. This address is a computer’s unique hardware number

MIMO:

Multiple Input, multiple Output

MNO:

Mobile Network Operator

MSIDM:

Mobile Subscriber ISDN Number

OFDM:

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OFDMA:

Orthogonal frequency division-multiple access

PSK:

Phase Shift Keying

QAM:

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QoS:

Quality of service

RF:

Radio frequency

SIM:

Subscriber Identification Module; a key security element in GSM networks

TDD:

Time Division Duplexing

TPC:

Transmit Power Control

UMTS:

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; World standard for 3rd generation mobile cellular telecommunications systems

URL:

Uniform Resource Locater; an address of a resource available in the internet

VoIP:

Voice over Internet Protocol

WEP:

Wire Equivalent Privacy; a term used when a radio link is considered as secure as a wired link

WiBro:

Wireless Broadband, is the South Korean version of WiMAX

WiFi:

Wireless fidelity. Used generically when referring to any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, and so on.

WiMAX:

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WISP:

Wireless Internet Service Provider

WLAN:

Wireless LAN

References

  1. 1 Cisco Systems EMEA: “Anytime Connectivity—Driving the Pentration of 802.11.b in the Public Access Market”, Feb. 2002.

  2. 2 Analysis: “The Dynamics of Availability and Demand in Public WLAN Access”, Feb. 2002.

  3. 3 Konhäuser, Walter: “Access Network Evolution Beyond Third Generation Mobile Communications”, IEEE Journal 2000, Mitautor: W. Mohr.

  4. 4 OFDM for Mobile Data Communications, Whitepaper Flarion Technologies, March 2003.

  5. 5 Understanding WiFi and WiMAX as Access Solutions, White Paper Article 2004.

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  1. Siemens AG, Com Berlin, German

    Walter Konhäuser

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Konhäuser, W. Broadband Wireless Access Solutions - Progressive Challenges and Potential Valueof Next Generation Mobile Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 37, 243–259 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9076-z

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