Saturday, January 2, 2016

WiMAX IEEE 802.16 Standard

The worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a telecommunication  technology based on IEEE 802.16 standard. WiMAX supports two types of network topologies which is Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) and Mesh. In the PMP, the link connection is only between Base Station (BS) and Subscriber Station (SS).

The standard was designed to evolve with media access control (MAC) layer consists of three sub layers. The three sub layers are:

1. Service specific convergence sub layer (CS)
2. MAC common part sub layer (CPS)
3. Security sub layer

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