Sequans is leading a European project to develop WiMAX2, it said ...
Sequans is leading a European project to develop WiMAX2, it said Tuesday. The European Commission-funded WiMAGIC project aims to create a prototype air interface for the WiMAX sequel, Sequans said Tuesday. The project will make “key contributions” to the…
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IEEE 802.16m task group, which is writing technical specifications for next-generation WiMAX systems, it said. Sequans is working with six technology firms and six universities from France, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Turkey, it said. WiMAX2 will be backwards compatible with current mobile WiMAX systems based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard, but will deliver “much higher performance,” Sequans said. WiMAGIC participants will address physical layer functions such as MIMO, high performance synchronization and channel estimation techniques for high vehicular mobility, and media access control layer functions such as adaptive radio resource management and cross-layer optimization, it said. The basic algorithms developed by the project will be validated using a system-level simulator and will then be prototyped, it said. “The WiMAGIC project will yield significant technological advancements in terms of network capacity, throughput, and mobility,” said Sequans chief scientist Hikmet Sari: “We expect WiMAX2 will be established as the leading 4G technology.” In the U.S., Sequans is working with Zyxel to build a WiMAX modem for Sprint Nextel’s Xohm service (CD Jan 9 p7).