• Day 1
  WiMAX Overview Part 1 (1 Hour)
  WiMAX Introduction
  Is WiMAX a 3G or 4G technology ?
  Integration within IMT-2000 (What is IMT-2000, which technologies are in it, what will it change now that ‘WiMAX’ is part of the document)
  Spectrum and issues
  Maximum range, maximum throughput, and realistic values in practice.
  Competing technologies from a political point of view: Wifi, HSPA(+), LTE and UMB
  WiMAX and the mobile web 2.0, applications taking advantage of mobility, mobile social networks, etc.
  Flatrate or limited usage? How to control usage (prepaid, postpaid, throttling, soft boundaries, limits, etc.).
  Complexity of getting into the network. An opportunity for WiMAX vs. 3G vs. DSL?
  National and international roaming. An opportunity for WiMAX vs. 3G?
  Usage patterns.
  
  WiMAX Overview Part 2 (1 Hour)
  Current state, e.g. maturity of the technology, deployed networks, number of users, first experiences
  Service Provider viewpoint – who are the players, what are their motivations and opportunities
  Success Factors – what has prevented BWA from mass market success – what will enable WiMAX to be a mass market success
  WiMAX device integration - Notebooks, Ultra Mobile, Consumer Electronics etc
  Applications for Mobile WiMAX – what is the killer app ? what services does it enable?
  Ecosystem Landscape – WiMAX Forum – who are the players – what are their opportunities etc
  Sprint Nextel – what is happening in the US – what can we learn and extrapolate from this deployment? Same for Clearwire perhaps??
  Quick peek at 16.m – where it is – what features are being considered – when might it become available
  
  The WiMAX Network (4 Hours)
  Introduction of WiMAX (fixed, mobile 11d and e)
  IEEE Standards (access network) including Today’s profiles and potential future profiles
  WiMAX Forum Standards (for core network) including conformance and interoperability
  WiMAX network nodes in the core network and in the access network
  Different ASNGW implementation options
  Interfaces (R3, R4, R6, R8), protocols, air interface protocol stack, procedures between the network nodes
  Mobility management (micro, macro), mobile IP
  Mobile state management (idle, active), requirements for it
  Authentication
  Use indoor/outdoor/mobile, large scale deployment, rural areas, hotspot coverage and influence on usage in the future
  Competing technologies from a technical point of view: Wifi, HSPA(+), LTE, potentially UMB
  Network capacity and cell capacity from different angles
  Base station backhaul (copper, fiber, microwave) and technologies (Sonet, Metro Ethernet)
  Voice over WiMAX (SIP, IMS, other VoIP systems), the challenge of offering QoS at least as good as today and with at least as many supplementary services (e.g. call forwarding, conferencing) as today.
  WiMAX for WiMAX backhaul, 802.16j
  802.16m (in case there are is material available about this next year)
  Comparison of WiMAX to Wi-Fi
  Content Overview
  Day 2
  WiMAX MAC Overview ( 2 Hours)
  WiMAX protocol stack introduction
  Data Link / Network and Transport Layers
  802.16 Medium Access Control (MAC) layer overview.
  MAC Frame Types and Classes and WiMAX frame structure
  PDUs – fixed and variable length
  Link adaptation and Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ)
  UL and DL scheduling
  Bandwidth request/grant scheme
  Service classes and QOS incluing - UGS, rtPS, nrtPS, BE etc.
  Synchronization
  Power management
  Convergence sub-layers
  Call set-up and control
  
  PHY Section ( 2.5 Hours)
  Brief Introduction To Modulation - Adaptive Modulation - BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM
  Time Division Duplexing (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD)
  OFDM, OFDMA
  Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), Adaptive Antenna Systems (AAS)
  Space Time Coding (STC) and Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
  WiMAX Physical (PHY) Layer overview
  Architecture and specifications
  WirelessMAN - SC PHY Layer, OFDM PHY Layer, OFDMA PHY Layer
  WiMAX Physical Medium Dependent Layer (PMD)
  Physical Layer (PHY) Implementation
  WiMAX Wrap Up, Q&ampA And Summary (1.5 Hours)

• Introduction to 802.16d-2004 (Fixed WiMAX), 802.16e-2005 (Mobile WiMAX) and future standards.
• WiMAX network architecture overview
• Physical layer overview including MIMO and AAS architectures
• Presentations by experts in the field of WiMAX with complimentary expertise in the field