Breaking the bottleneck of WiMAX physical layer testing Breaking the bottleneck of WiMAX physical layer testing The development of WiMAX technology has also put forward higher requirements for the receiving and transmitting tests corresponding to the WiMAX physical layer test. R&S provides targeted testing solutions for this. WiMAX stands for World Interoperability for Microwave Access. It is a wireless metropolitan area network technology (WMAN). One base station can provide a maximum downlink data transmission rate of 100Mbps for multiple fixed users within a radius of 3 to 10 kilometers, and a maximum downlink data transmission rate of 15Mbps for multiple mobile users within a radius of 3 kilometers. There are currently two major international standards for WiMAX, namely IEEE802.16-2004 and IEEE802.16e-2005. IEEE802.16-2004 is a revision of 802.16a and 802.16d, mainly used for fixed broadband wireless access, including OFDM and OFDMA technologies; IEEE802.16e-2005 standard is an extension of IEEE802.16-2004 standard, which adds support for mobile broadband data access. Physical layer test In WiMAX technology, OFDM technology is mainly used as the signal transmission mode of non-line-of-sight connection (NLOS). As we all know, OFDM signals are composed of some orthogonal carriers, and digital modulation is performed on each carrier. Compared with single-carrier technology with the same data rate, OFDM signals have a longer symbol period, so this technology has strong anti-multipath fading performance. In addition, the modulation modes applied on the carrier are BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM, and various modulations are adaptively switched according to the requirements of the transmission rate. Compared with wireless LAN WLan, WiMAX signal bandwidth is not fixed and can vary from 1.25MHz to 28MHz. In IEEE802.16-2004, there are two modes: OFDM and OFDMA. In OFDM mode, there are 200 subcarriers and it can work in TDD or FDD mode; in OFDMA mode, the number of subcarriers is variable, and a carrier group (subchannel) is allocated to each user to transmit the user data, and the number of carriers is greatly increased. IEEE802.16e-……
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