Fundamentals of WiMAX was consciously written to appeal to a broad audience, and to be of value to anyone who is interested in the IEEE 802.16e standards or wireless broadband networks more generally. The book contains cutting-edge tutorials on the technical and theoretical underpinnings to WiMAX that are not available anywhere else, while also providing high-level overviews that will be informative to the casual reader. The entire book is written with a tutorial approach that should make most of the book accessible and useful to readers who do not wish to bother with equations and technical details; but the details are there for those who want a rigorous understanding. In short, we expect this book to be of great use to practicing engineers, managers and executives, graduate students who want to learn about WiMAX, undergraduates who want to learn about wireless communications, attorneys involved with regulations and patents pertaining to WiMAX, and members of the financial community who want to understand exactly what WiMAX promises.

The book is organized into three parts with a total of twelve chapters. Part I provides an introduction to broadband wireless and WiMAX. Part II presents a collection of rigorous tutorials covering the technical and theoretical foundations upon which WiMAX is built. In Part III we present a more detailed exposition of the WiMAX standard, along with a quantitative analysis of its performance.

About the Author

Jeffrey G. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the associate director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. He received a B.S. in engineering with high distinction from Harvey Mudd College in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2002. Dr. Andrews serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and has industry experience at companies including Qualcomm, Intel, Palm, and Microsoft.

Arunabha Ghosh is a principal member of technical staff in the Wireless Communications Group in AT&T Labs Inc. He received his B.S. with highest distinction from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1992 and his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. Dr. Ghosh has worked extensively in the area of closed loop MIMO solutions for WiMAX and has chaired several task groups within the WiMAX Forum for the development of mobile WiMAX Profiles.

Rias Muhamed is a lead member of technical staff in the Wireless Networks Group at AT&T Labs Inc. He received his B.S. in electronics and communications engineering from Pondicherry University, India, in 1990, his M.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1996, and his M.B.A. from St. Edwards University at Austin in 2000. Rias has led the technology assessment activities at AT&T Labs in the area of Fixed Wireless Broadband for several years, and has worked on a variety of wireless systems and networks.