Research Article
Influence of Technical Improvements on the Business Case for a Mobile WiMAX Network
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11664-3_5, author={Bart Lannoo and Jeffrey Bruyne and Wout Joseph and Jan Ooteghem and Emmeric Tanghe and Didier Colle and Luc Martens and Mario Pickavet and Piet Demeester}, title={Influence of Technical Improvements on the Business Case for a Mobile WiMAX Network}, proceedings={Access Networks. 4th International Conference, AccessNets 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 1-3, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ACCESSNETS}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={Broadband Wireless Communication WiMAX 802.16e-2005 Mobility Business Case Techno-economic Analysis}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11664-3_5} }- Bart Lannoo
Jeffrey Bruyne
Wout Joseph
Jan Ooteghem
Emmeric Tanghe
Didier Colle
Luc Martens
Mario Pickavet
Piet Demeester
Year: 2012
Influence of Technical Improvements on the Business Case for a Mobile WiMAX Network
ACCESSNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11664-3_5
Abstract
From a technical point of view, Mobile WiMAX may offer an appropriate solution for delivering broadband wireless access. Two remaining questions, however, are whether the rollout of a WiMAX network is economically feasible or not, and how technical improvements like MIMO, beamforming and turbo-coding can influence the business case. In this paper different technical scenarios for a Mobile WiMAX rollout are defined and evaluated from an economic as well as a technical perspective. To obtain realistic figures, we have defined a business case for a Mobile WiMAX rollout in Belgium, a country with a high wired broadband penetration. Further, we give an indication about the feasibility of a Mobile WiMAX network related to the population density. Finally, as the introduction of a new technology involves a lot of uncertainties, a detailed sensitivity analysis on both the economic and technical input parameters is performed to determine the most influencing parameters.