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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2011)

Published: December 31, 2011

Pages: 125-129

Original Article

A Performance Study of Wireless Broadband Access (WiMAX)

Maan A. S. Al-Adwany 1
1Department of Computer & Information Engineering, College of Electronics Engineering University of Mosul Mosul, Iraq
History
  • Received: October 31, 2011
  • Available Online: December 31, 2011
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.7.2.7

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.

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