Everything about WiMAX

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: WiMAXA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Ultra-Wideband Compact Fractal Antenna for WiMAX, WLAN, C and X Band ApplicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Ofdma for Wireless Broadband Communication: Wimax and Beyond (Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Relay technologies for WiMax and LTE-advanced mobile systemsCited 474 times
5. Go sideways: IEEE 802.16A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IMT AdvancedA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Relay technologies for WiMax and LTE-advanced mobile systems

  Yang Yang, Honglin Hu, Jing Xu · 2009 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 474 citations

• Broadband wireless access with WiMax/802.16: current performance benchmarks and future potential

  A. Ghosh, D.R. Wolter, J.G. Andrews · 2005 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 469 citations

• MIMO techniques in WiMAX and LTE: a feature overview

  Qinghua Li, Guangjie Li, Wookbong Lee · 2010 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 382 citations

• Carrier aggregation framework in 3GPP LTE-advanced [WiMAX/LTE Update

  Mikio Iwamura, Kamran Etemad, Mo-han Fong · 2010 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 257 citations

• The future of WiMAX: Multihop relaying with IEEE 802.16j

  S.W. Peters, R.W. Heath · 2009 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 242 citations

• Scheduling in IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX networks: key issues and a survey

  Chakchai So-In, Raj Jain, Abdel-Karim Tamimi · 2009 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 233 citations

• A Multiband Slot Antenna for GPS/WiMAX/WLAN Systems

  Y. F. Cao, S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation · 233 citations

• Dual Wideband Printed Monopole Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Applications

  Chien-Yuan Pan, Tzyy-Sheng Horng, Wen-Shan Chen · 2007 · IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters · 228 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Ultra-Wideband Compact Fractal Antenna for WiMAX, WLAN, C and X Band Applications

  Mohamed Marzouk, Youssef Rhazi, Ibrahime Hassan Nejdi · 2023 · Sensors · 40 citations

• Flexible Thin Film-Based Triple Port UWB MIMO Antenna With Modified Ground Plane for UWB, WLAN, WiMAX, WPAN and 5G Applications

  Paitoon Rakluea, Norakamon Wongsin, Chatree Mahatthanajatuphat · 2023 · IEEE Access · 36 citations

• Compact Liquid Crystal Polymer-Based Tri-Band Flexible Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX/5G Applications

  Chengzhu Du, Xiaodi Li, Shunshi Zhong · 2025 · IEEE Access · 35 citations

• A dual-band CPW-fed miniature planar antenna for S-, C-, WiMAX, WLAN, UWB, and X-band applications

  Md. Mottahir Alam, Rezaul Azim, Nebras M. Sobahi · 2022 · Scientific Reports · 35 citations

• A wide axial-ratio beamwidth circularly-polarized oval patch antenna with sunlight-shaped slots for gnss and wimax applications

  Ahmad Abdalrazik, Ahmed Gomaa, Ahmed A. Kishk · 2022 · Wireless Networks · 29 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Ofdma for Wireless Broadband Communication: Wimax and Beyond (Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage)Mustafa Ergen · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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