Chapter 1 updates Mobile WiMAX status and standards; Chapters 2-6 are related to physical layer transmission; Chapters 7-12 deal with MAC and networking issues; Chapters 13-14 discuss relay networks for mobile WiMAX; and Chapters 15-19 present multimedia networking for mobile WiMAX and application scenarios.
Ideal for Mobile WiMAX R&D/practicing engineers (systems, applications and services, field, terminal, IC design, integration), business development professionals, academic researchers. Graduate students conducting research and graduate students studying in mobile WiMAX and next generation wireless communications. Undergraduate students studying mobile WiMAX related subjects
Professor J. Roberto B. de Marca received his undergraduate engineering degree from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. de Marca was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California, where he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1977. He then joined the faculty of the Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he has held several positions including Associate Academic Vice President for Sponsored Research. In 1990, Prof. de Marca was appointed, by the Minister of Science and Technology, Scientific Director of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), responsible for a 300 million dollar research funding program which included all individual research grants and fellowships in all areas of knowledge.