User's Manual

Mobile WiMAX RAS SPI-2213 System Description
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CHAPTER 1. Overview of Mobile
WiMAX System
1.1 Introduction to Mobile WiMAX
The Mobile WiMAX system is the wireless network system that supports IEEE 802.16
base service. The IEEE 802.16 standard is the basis of Mobile WiMAX, and includes IEEE
Std 802.16-2004 defining fixed wireless internet access service and IEEE Std 802.16,
P802.16-2004/Cor/D3 defining the technologies supporting mobility, which include
handover, paging.
Mobile WiMAX Standard
In this description, the entire Mobile WiMAX standard is expressed IEEE 802.16.
The wireless LAN (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN) can provide high speed data
services, but its radio wave is short and covers only small areas, and also gives limited user
mobility. It is difficult for WLAN to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for data service.
On the contrary, the present mobile communication networks support the mobility of the
users, but the service charge and the cost of system operations are high due to the limited
wireless resources. To provide faster service in the existing mobile communication
networks, it requires a separate wireless communication technology such as High Speed
Packet Access (HSPA) for the data services.
Mobile WiMAX can, therefore, overcome the limitations of the WLAN and present mobile
communication networks, and accommodate only the advantages of the system.
Mobile WiMAX can ultimately provide the high speed wireless internet services with low
cost at any time and in anyplace.
Samsung Mobile WiMAX System provides high speed data services using the transmission
technology of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) by the Time
Division Duplex (TDD), and can give wider coverage compared to the existing WLAN.
The system performance and the capacity have been expanded by the high performance
hardware, and thus, it can easily give various functions and services to the users.