On significant progress of broadband wireless access technology such as WiMAX, STAG (Science and Technology Advisory Group of Executive Yuan) released the Taiwan WiMAX Blueprint to figure out the future of Taiwan WiMAX development in December 2005. It is expecting to build up the domestic WiMAX industry through the WiMAX test-bed in government-funded M-Taiwan programs. According to the Blueprint, the NCC (National Communications Commission) completed the first six regional commercial BWA licenses in June 2007, which is significant milestone to Taiwan WiMAX development. Therefore, in this paper we elaborate on our study on this emerging mobile WiMAX technology, especially the functionalities of physical and median access control. Then we present the test-bed that set up at Chunghwa telecom Lab and the evaluation result to investigate the performance of WiMAX technology in reality.
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