Test of 2.5 GHz WiMAX performances for business and SOHO in a multi-service environment

The paper is focused on evaluating the performances of a WiMAX system in a variety of single and multiple play scenarios for SOHO and Business customers. To this aim several experiments are carried out over a 2.5 GHz WiMAX test-bed deployed at the radiocommunication laboratories of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Throughput and link quality are tested in uplink and downlink in correspondence of different system configuration profiles and WiMAX service classes. Fixed and portable access are considered, for coverage ranges up to a few kilometers.