Developed as an European answer to the WiMAX
(or the IEEE 802.16 standard) and the Korean technology WiBro to equip
Europe and other countries that follow the ETSI standard with a
wireless network communication of 2 – 11 GHz bands, it mainly focuses
in providing broadband Wireless DSL that covers a large geographic area.
The
technology of HIPERMAN otherwise the High Performance Radio
Metropolitan Area Network is a standard formed by the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Broadband Radio Access
Networks (BRAN) group.
Functioning
at the radio frequencies between 2 GHz and 11 GHz, the HIPERMAN
standard is designed for Fixed Wireless Access demand to SMEs and
residences using the basic MAC (DLC and CLs) of the IEEE 802.16-2001
standard. Created under the close collaboration with IEEE 802.16, such
that the HIPERMAN standard and a subset of the IEEE 802.16a-2003
standard will interoperate seamlessly.
The
vision behind HIPERMAN mainly aims in providing solutions for broadband
below the frequency 11 GHz (mainly in the 3.5 GHz band) and also for
supporting the packet switched networks and the fixed and nomadic
applications focusing primarily on the residential and small business
user environments. Focusing the IP traffic HIPERMAN supports the ATM
and also provides a range of service categories, full Quality of
Service, fast connection control management, strong security, fast
adaptation of coding, modulation and transmit power to propagation
conditions and is capable of non-line-of-sight operation. Facilitating
both PMP and Mesh network configurations HIPERMAN also helps both the
FDD and the TDD frequency allocations and H-FDD terminals. The
highlight of using HIPERMAN for accomplishing the entire task is that
the implementation and the interoperability are carried out with very
less options.