ess Systems, May 2009. [2] P802.16m/D6, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Part 16: Air Interface for Broadband Wireless Access Systems, Advanced Air Interface, May 2010. [3] IEEE 802.16m-0034r3, System Description Document, May 2010. [4] Loutfi Nuaymi, WiMAX: Technology for Broadband Wireless Access, John Wiley & Sons, 2007. [5] Jeffrey G. Andrews, Arunabha Ghosh, Rias Muhamed, Fundamentals of WiMAX: Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking, first ed., Prentice Hall, 2007. [6] WiMAX Forum, Mobile System Profile Release 1.5 Air Interface Specification, August 2009. [7] 3GPP TS 36.300, Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2, March 2010. 8.8 3GPP LTE security aspects [8] 3GPP TS 36.401, Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Architecture Description, December 2009. [9] 3GPP TS 36.323, Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification, March 2010. [10] IETF RFC 2617, J. Franks et al., HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, June 1999. [11] IETF RFC 1321, R. Rivest, MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, April 1992. [12] IETF RFC 4309, R. Housley, Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) CCM Mode with IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), December 2005. [13] IETF RFC 4187, J. Arkko and H. Haverinen, Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3rd Generation Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA), January 2006. This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER The IEEE 802.16m Physical Layer (Part |) INTRODUCTION This section describes the physical layer protocols and functional processing in IEEE 802.16m. As shown in Figure 9-1, the physical layer is the lowest protocol layer in baseband signal processing that interfaces with the physical media (in this case the air interface) through which the signal is trans- mitted and received. The physical layer receives the MAC PDUs and processes them th