ABSTRACT
Written exclusively from broadcasters perspective, Mobile Broadcasting with WiMAX will help you move ahead in the use of WiMAX technologies. Whether you are an engineer, content provider, manager, or operator and planning such services, this book helps you understand the dimensions of this new medium and integration of communication, broadcasting and Multimedia technologies. The book oulines migrating to a new generation of broadcasting which integrates the Mobile, Wireless and Fixed network domains, then gives you a complete picture on what is happening in the field.
The book is divided into five parts as follows:
PART I Gives an introduction to Broadband Wireless Technologies and Mobile WiMAX. Wi-Fi including 802.11a,b,n and g, WiMAX technologies with focus on Mobile WiMAX 802.16e, and provides a global overview of deployment of Wireless broadband networks.
PART-II is about Mobile Multimedia broadcasting and Mobile TV technologies, based on both cellular and broadband wireless.
PART III covers Resources for Mobile multimedia broadcasting and comprises of four structured chapters on Spectrum for WiMAX networks, WiMAX terrestrial broadcasting networks, client devices for WiMAX and an update of on chipsets developments.
Part IV is devoted to the Network Architectures and the integration of WiMAX with other networks, both fixed and mobile.
Part V deals with Software architectures and Applications which help the process of mobile multimedia broadcasting. Case studies of prominent networks are given with country specific examples.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |70 pages
Introduction to Wireless Networks and Mobile Multimedia
chapter |17 pages
Why WiMAX for Broadcasting?
chapter |32 pages
Introduction to Broadband Wireless Networks
chapter |18 pages
Introduction to Mobile Multimedia
section |106 pages
Broadband Wireless Technologies
chapter |54 pages
Understanding WiMAX
chapter |32 pages
Design of WiMAX Transmission Networks
chapter |18 pages
Broadband Wireless Networks: Deployment Status Worldwide
chapter |16 pages
Standards Convergence in Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting
chapter |20 pages
Chipsets for WiMAX Devices
chapter |22 pages
Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) for WiMAX
chapter |28 pages
Software Architectures for Mobile Multimedia Wireless Devices
chapter |36 pages
Spectrum for WiMax Networks
chapter |30 pages
Mobile WiMAX Networks
section |82 pages
Mobile Broadcasting Technologies
chapter |24 pages
Broadcasting Mobile Multimedia Using WiMAX-Network Architectures
chapter |23 pages
Mobile TV Technologies: A Strategic Overview
chapter |32 pages
IPTV and WiMAX
section |158 pages
Converged Architecture, Design and Applications