WiMAX technology is presently one of the most promising global telecommunication systems.

Great hopes and important investments have been made for WiMAX, which is a Broadband

Wireless Access System having many applications: fi xed or last-mile wireless access,

backhauling, mobile cellular network, telemetering, etc. WiMAX is based on the IEEE 802.16

standard, having a rich set of features. This standard defi nes the Medium Access Layer and

the Physical Layer of a fi xed and mobile Broadband Wireless Access System. WiMAX is also

based on the WiMAX Forum documents.

This book is intended to be a complete introduction to the WiMAX System without having

the ambition to replace thousands of pages of documents of the IEEE 802.16 standard and

amendments and WiMAX Forum documents. There will always be a need to refer to these

for any technical development of a specifi c aspect of WiMAX.