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Orthogonal Link-layer
frequency division
multiple access
WiMax retransmissions
(OFDMA)
Support
for TDD
and FDD
Quality-of-service advanced
IP-based
antenna
architecture
techniques
Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM)
◦ Data sent across various frequency channels.
◦ Guard bands used to avoid interference between channels
◦ Not very spectrally efficient.
◦ Examples are AM radio, and analog TV transmission
A B C D E F G H I J
Subchannel BW
Guard Band frequency
Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing
Spectrally efficient !
Why Orthogonality is so great ?
FDD
TDD
-Transmitter and receiver operate on the same frequency but at different
times
-An FDD system uses a duplexer and/or two antennas that require
spatial separation and, therefore, cannot reuse the resources. The
result is more costly hardware.
-Mobile WiMAX uses OFDM as a multiple-access technique.