A comparison of wi-fi and wimax with case studies - Florida State ...

Internet access using the wide availability of the cellular telephone networks. These factors make
it really difficult to predict the future of wireless Internet access.
In this thesis, the focus is primarily implementations of IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16. In
chapter 2, 3G will be discussed briefly, but the low data rate of current 3G implementations limit
it’s applicability for general wireless Internet access. And for clarifying the capabilities of Wi-Fi
and WiMax, this thesis will include three case studies. The case studies are the FSU (Florida
State Univ.) campus Wi-Fi network, the city-wide Wi-Fi network in Taipei, Taiwan, and the
city-wide WiMax network in Seoul, Korea. By comparing these three cases, the design problems
and operation difficulties can be identified. Taipei and Seoul are both the first complete citywide
wireless network in the world. The current statuses of their networks reflect the capabilities
of WiMax and Wi-Fi. By study these case studies, this paper is going to evaluate the feasibility
of building a Wireless Networked City using WiMax and/or Wi-Fi.
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