Broadband Wireless Access Solutions - Progressive Challenges and Potential Value of Next Generation Mobile Networks

The growth in mobile communication will accelerate over the next years. Today most of the mobile subscribers use cellular services only. But this will change in the near future towards broadband wireless access services like WiFi and WiMAX. This paper describes a fundamental overview of the broadband wireless access technologies and outlines the market view, major trends and introduces OFDM technologies. New developments for integration of broadband wireless access into the operators' infrastructure are also discussed. Keywords: broadband wireless access (BWA), broadband wireless solutions (BWS), next generation mobile networks, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), orthogonal frequency division-multiple access (OFDMA), wireless broadband (WiBro), wireless fidelity (WiFi), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), wireless LAN (WLAN)