WiMAX, Rural, Fixed
Perform network analysis for a WiMAX air interface in a rural/suburban scenario for fixed communications, such as “the last mile” to a residential internet subscriber.
WiMAX Standard and Definition
WiMAX refers to the IEEE 802.16 standard family of wireless-networks standards ratified by the WiMAX forum. The standard used here is IEEE 802.16d (fixed broadband wireless access). WiMAX is similar to long-range Wi-Fi, but it works over much greater distances.
Model Type

Figure 1. The topographical database that describes the elevation of the geometry.

Figure 2. The clutter database that describes the land usage of the geometry.
Sites and Antennas
There are seven antenna sites in this scenario. Each site has three sector antennas at a height of 25 m. The carrier frequencies are near 3.5 GHz.
Air Interface
A list of different modulation and coding schemes are added to this interface on the Air Interface tab, under Transmission Modes.
Computational Method
The dominant path model (DPM) is selected for the computation, which focuses on the most relevant path, which leads to shorter computation times.
Results
Propagation results show at every location the power received by a hypothetical isotropic receiver from each transmitting antenna, as well as field strength and line-of-sight status. Results are calculated for a single prediction plane at 20 m height.
- cell area
- site area
- best server
- maximum data rate for both uplink and downlink
- minimum required transmitter power
- reception probability
- SNIR (max) for all modulation and coding schemes for uplink and downlink

Figure 3. Maximum downlink throughput.