Abstract

In the last few years, the telecommunication industries’ development has focused on an
intensive use of broadband systems, which are characterized by high quality features. For this
issue, new technologies with high transmission abilities have been designed. The broadband
wireless access has become the best way to meet escalating business demand for rapid internet
connection and integrated "triple play" services .In addition to not only topographic but also
technological limitations, wireless solution alternatives have been found. That is the very base of
the WiMAX concept :a wireless transmission infrastructure that allows a fast deployment as well
as low maintenance costs.Based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard, WiMAX allows for an
efficient use of bandwidth in a wide frequency range, and can be used as a last mile solution for
broadband Internet access.
The aim of this diploma thesis is to implement all compulsory features of the WiMAX
OFDM physical layer specified in IEEE 802.16-2004 in Matlab Simulink. Optional space-time
coding for more than one transmit antenna is implemented to allow performance investigations
in various MIMO scenarios. Likewise, a maximum ratio combining diversity scheme is
implemented in the receiver for the same purpose. In order to combat the temporal variations
inquality on a multipath fading channel, an adaptive modulation and coding technique is used.
This technique employs multiple modulation and coding schemes to instantaneously adapt to the
variations in the channel SNR, thus maximizing the system throughput and improving BER
performance.
The thesis gives an overview about the WiMAX standard and studies the performance of a
WiMAX transmitter and receiver, also covering the performance gains of some optional features,
such as the MIMO extension. The influence of these parts on the system performance is shown
and analyzed in great detail in simulation result