Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005. / Thesis Advisor(s): Tri T. Ha. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72). Also available online.

University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment School of Information and Electrical Engineering / Mobile Broadband is now more of a necessity than a luxury, especially amongst the younger generation, irrespective of where they live. Mobile WiMax and LTE, the latest and fastest Mobile Broadband technologies, mark significant improvements over 3G networks because they use IP (Internet Protocol) end-to-end. To end-users, this means faster network speeds, better quality services, and increased coverage area. To the Network Operators, this means simplified network architectures, efficient use of resources, and improved security. In this report, the different issues and challenges related to deploying Mobile WiMax (802.16e or 802.16m) in rural South Africa, were identifed and explored. In this project, Atoll, SONAR, and Touch Point analysis tools were used to determine which Mobile Broadband technology is economically and technically suited for rural South Africa. It was found that LTE yields superior performance results than WiMax, which in turn yields superior performance results to all other existing 3G technologies. However it will take time for LTE to reach rural areas therefore WiMax can be considered as a solution to extend Broadband services to rural South Africa and thus assist in bridging the digital divide. Recommendations on how best to deploy Mobile WiMax are made based on observations made from the experimental work. / MT2017

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): McEachen, John C. ; Loomis, Herschel H. Second Reader: Garcia, Vicente C. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: 802.16, WiMAX, geolocation, ranging, timing adjust. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72). Also available in print.

M. Tech. Electrical Engineering. / Discusses the study as limited to the formal specification/modelling and formal verification of protocols proposed and applicable to the initial network entry procedure in WiMAX networks. Secondly, formal specification of the existing protocols under consideration will be based on their informal specification available in the literature and not on proprietary protocols for which little or no information is available. Thirdly, this research work does not intend to wipe out the state space explosion problem but rather applies existing optimization techniques to supress it. Finally, the study does not assess the usability performance impact of the proposed security scheme and thus recommends that this analysis should be done as future work to evaluate the functionality and soundness of deploying the proposed security scheme.

Thesis (M.E.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86). Also avialable via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.Eng.(Electronic Engineering)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Summaries in Afrikaans and English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-122).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009. / "Submitted to Department of Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-108)

M. Tech. Electrical Engineering. / Discusses raptor codes as fundamentally designed for erasure control coding technique, however, the overall objective of this dissertation is to examine their efficacy as a forward error correcting code as well as their spectral efficiency in the IEEE 802.16e-2005 physical layer. The specific objectives include: to analyse the error performance of raptor codes in mobile WiMAX ; to investigate the error performance of the various LDPC code classes defined in the mobile WiMAX standard ; to compare the performance of raptor codes and LDPC codes over the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel and to compare the spectral efficiency of raptor codes with that of the LDPC codes.

Bringing broadband access to rural and remote communities has been a very difficult task due to the high cost of installation and complete lack of infrastructure in certain areas. Options currently under serious consideration to enable this access have included GSM, CDMA, Power line telecommunications, and DSL technologies. However, with the addition of the IEEE 802.16 standard - commonly referred to as WiMAX - with its various advantages, another serious option is now being considered. WiMAX is standard developed to provide wireless broadband access to metropolitan area networks. It is capable of providing LOS and NLOS coverage in the range of 350 km with data rates up to 75 Mbps. This research therefore looks at the WiMAX standard MAC and PHY layers with special focus on the PHY layer properties enabling provision ofNLOS coverage (WirelessMAN OFDM PHY). The research evaluates the performance of WiMAX in a rural environment in terms of coverage and traffic analysis. Other aspects include multipath fading and channel estimation. The traffic analysis is carried out using traffic projection formulated over a period often years for Nkandla, a typical rural area in South Africa. This is done to evaluate the sustainability of the designed base stations over the ten-year period with the growing traffic. / Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.