WiMAX

Foreword

New telecommunications services and applications are the strong drivers of progress, and they pose new requirements to the network technologies. Indeed, in the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion of IP connectivity demand, yielding rapid development of the corresponding technologies in the wireless access network domain. IP services provision anytime and anywhere becomes very challenging and is seen by operators as a major opportunity for boosting the average revenue per unit (ARPU). The further success of IP services deployment requires true mobile broadband IP connectivity on a global scale. The third-generation mobile cellular systems are the main player, but insufficient throughput for support of broadband IP traffic ...