The 4G Era: Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution: Competitors or Friends - Technology and Markets Assessment

1.0 Introduction

• 1.1 General
• 1.2 Planning Wireless Technologies: Generations
• 1.3 Goal
• 1.4 Structure
• 1.5 Research Methodology
• 1.6 Target Audience10

2.0 4G Technologies

• 2.1 Wireless Revolution or Evolution?
  • 2.1.1 4G as 3G Successor
• 2.2 Requirements
• 2.3 Typical Features
• 2.4 Choice

3.0 Mobile WiMAX Technology and Market

• 3.1 General
• 3.2 History of WiMAX Development
  • 3.2.1 The IEEE 802.16-2004 Standard
    • 3.2.1.1 Modes and Profiles
    • 3.2.1.2 Physical Layer
    • 3.2.1.3 MAC Layer
    • 3.2.1.4 Frame Structure
• 3.3 IEEE 802.16e Standard Specifics
  • 3.3.1 General
  • 3.3.2 Types of Handover
    • 3.3.2.1 MS Initiated HO
    • 3.3.2.2 BS Initiated HO
    • 3.3.2.3 Soft HO
  • 3.3.3 Sleep Mode
  • 3.3.4 IEEE 802.16e Physical Layer
    • 3.3.4.1 OFDMA
    • 3.3.4.2 SOFDMA
    • 3.3.4.3 Antenna System
    • 3.3.4.4 TDD
• 3.4 Spectrum
  • 3.4.1 Groups
  • 3.4.2 Future Spectrum for BWA/WiMAX
  • 3.4.3 Spectrum Availability for WiMAX Mobility
  • 3.4.4 WiMAX Forum
• 3.5 WiMAX Forum and IEEE
  • 3.5.1 Enhancements
• 3.6 Beginning
  • 3.6.1 Advantages and Disadvantages: IEEE 802.16e
• 3.7 ITU Activity
• 3.8 WiMAX End- to- End
  • 3.8.1 Features Summary
• 3.9 Standards Evolution
  • 3.9.1 Further Standard Developments
    • 3.9.1.1 Under Development
    • 3.9.1.2 IEEE 802.16m
    • 3.9.1.3 IEEE 802.16j
• 3.10 Certification: Waves
• 3.11 Market
  • 3.11.1 Target
  • 3.11.2 Paid Subscribers Base
    • 3.11.2.1 Projects
      • 3.11.2.1.1 Sprint Nextel
      • 3.11.2.1.2 Korea
      • 3.11.2.1.3 Saudi Telecom
      • 3.11.2.1.4 Pakistan
      • 3.11.2.1.5 Germany
      • 3.11.2.1.6 Bulgaria
      • 3.11.2.1.7 India
      • 3.11.2.1.8 Clearwire
    • 3.11.2.2 Forecast
      • 3.11.2.2.1 Factors
  • 3.11.3 Market Geography
  • 3.11.4 Applications
  • 3.11.5 Market Forecast: Services and Equipment
    • 3.11.5.1 Methodology
    • 3.11.5.2 Categories
    • 3.11.5.3 Prices
    • 3.11.5.4 Forecast: Service Revenue
    • 3.11.5.5 Forecast: Equipment Sales
    • 3.11.5.6 Market Prospective
    • 3.11.5.7 Equipment Prices
• 3.12 Market Players
  • 3.12.1 General
  • 3.12.2 Vendors
    • Adaptix (Platform)
    • Airspan Networks (Platform, USB)
    • Alvarion (Platform, Public Safety)
    • Altair (Chipsets)
    • ApaceWave (Chipsets)
    • Aperto Networks (Base stations, Subscriber units)
    • Altera (Chipsets)
    • ArrayComm Incorporated (MIMO)
    • Aspex (SDR for 802.16e)
    • Alcatel-Lucent (Line of 802.16e Products)
    • Beceem Communications, Incorporated (Chipsets)
    • Cambridge Consultants (Reference Design)
    • Cisco (Navini) (Line of 802.16e Products)
    • Comsys (Processors, chipsets)
    • Fujitsu (Chips)
    • Huawei (Line of 802.16e Products)
    • Intel Corporation (Chipsets)
    • M/A-Com (Radio)
    • Motorola (Chipsets, radios)
    • NEC (Line of 802.16e Products)
    • NextWave (Chipsets)
    • Nokia (Tablet)
    • Nortel (Line of 802.16e Products)
    • picoChip (Chipsets)
    • Posdata (Base stations, chipsets, subscriber units)
    • Proxim (Product Line)
    • Redline Communications (Base Stations)
    • Runcom (Product Line)
    • Samsung (RAS)
    • Siemens (Line of Products)
    • SOMA Networks (Line of Products)
    • STMicroelectronics (Base station modems)
    • Sequans (Chipsets, SW)
    • TI (Chipsets)
    • Telsima (802.16e Equipment)
    • Wavesat Incorporated (Chipsets)
    • WiChorus (ASN Gateway)
    • Wintegra (Chipsets, SW)
    • XroNET (Chipsets)
    • ZTE (Platforms)
    • ZyXel (Product line)

4.0 Long Term Evolution: Technology and Market

• 4.1 3GPP
  • 4.1.1 Broadband Wireless Communications-Phases
  • 4.1.2 LTE Standardization-Industry Collaboration
    • 4.1.2.1 Industry Initiative
    • 4.1.2.2 Intellectual Property
  • 4.1.3 Brief History
• 4.2 Key Features
  • 4.2.1 Details
  • 4.2.2 Benefits
    • 4.2.1.1 Voice Support
• 4.3 SAE/EPS
  • 4.3.1 Functional Structure
  • 4.3.2 Interfaces
• 4.4 Market
  • 4.4.1 Demand: Wireless Broadband
  • 4.4.2 LTE Market Projections
• 4.5 Vendors and Providers
  • Agilent
  • Alcatel-Lucent-NEC
  • Ericsson
  • Infineon
  • Lime Microsystems
  • NextWave Wireless
  • Nortel
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • NXP
  • Panasonic-Nokia Siemens Networks
  • picoChip-mimoOn
  • Qualcomm
  • TI
  • Signalion
  • Sprint Nextel
  • Verizon and Vodafone
  • ZTE

5.0 Competition: LTE and Mobile WiMAX

• 5.1 General
  • 5.1.1 Mobile WiMAX
  • 5.1.2 Mobile WIMAX and LTE
• 5.2 Features
• 5.3 Challenges

6.0 Conclusions

References

Acronyms List

• Figure 1: Wireless Communications: Generations
• Figure 2: 700 MHz Band Allocation
• Figure 3: Standards Evolution
• Figure 4: IEEE 802.16 WG Activity
• Figure 5: IEEE 802.16m Major Features
• Figure 6: Channel Bandwidth-Frequency Ranges
• Figure 7: Waves
• Figure 8: Projection: 802.16e Services Subscribers Base (M)
• Figure 9: 802.16e Markets Geography
• Figure 10: 802.16e Major Applications
• Figure 11: Projection: 802.16e Service Providers Revenue-Commercial Customers ($M)
• Figure 12: Projection: 802.16e Service Providers Revenue-Residential Customers ($M)
• Figure 13: Projection: 802.16e Equipment Sales ($B)
• Figure 14: LTE - IP
• Figure 15: Estimate: Mobile Subscribers Base (B)
• Figure 16: Projection: Global Broadband Mobile Subscribers Base
• Figure 17: LTE Market-Subscribers' Base (M)
• Figure 18: Projection: LTE-based Services Revenue ($M)
• Figure 19: Projection: LTE Global Equipment Sale ($M)

• Table 1: 4G - Today Technologies
• Table 2: 3G and 4G Features
• Table 3: WiMax IEEE Activity
• Table 4: WiMAX Forum Considerations
• Table 5: WiMAX Family-Major Parameters
• Table 6: Details
• Table 7: Features Details
• Table 8: IEEE 802.16m: WiMAX R1 and R2
• Table 9: 3GPP R7 and R8
• Table 10: Major Characteristics
• Table 11: Frequency Bands
• Table 12: 802.16e and LTE Major Features Comparison