Mobile WiMAX: a technology update [Guest Editorial]

The success and growth of Internet-based services has profoundly impacted the global economies, as well as the ways people communicate and their lifestyles. With ever increasing demands for accessing the Internet via mobile devices, the focus of next-generation mobile wireless technology development is to enable and efficiently deliver broadband mobile multimedia and Internet services to users. The communication industry is making big strides in the design of next-generation broadband mobile networks which are poised to enormously increase the value of the Internet and its usage by bringing the Internet to users as opposed to having users go to the Internet.