Testing Waves of WiMax

WiMAX forum defines waves and releases for certification work of WiMax.
The 3 testing waves of fixed WiMax IEEE 802.16-2004 including: Wave 1 Air protocol interoperability, Wave 2 Outdoor CPE, QoS, Security, Wave 3 indoor CPE, PC cards, nomadic service .
The 4 testing waves of mobile WiMax IEEE 802.16-2005 including: Wave 1 Air protocol interoperability, Wave 2 CPE, QoS, Wave 3 Handoff, Simple mobility, Wave 4 full mobility. The planned schedule for wave 1 of mobile wimax will be in 1st half of 2007. Wave 2 certification will not happen until 2nd half of 2007.
New added mandatory test items for wave 2 of mobile wimax including: handover, QoS, power saving, Ipv6. New added mandatory MS test items for wave 2 of mobile wimax also including: (2x2)MIMO, Beamforming, MBS(Multicast Broadcast Service). It may happen for wave 2 plugfest test in 23-27 October at Taipei.
In the document of WiMAX forum's Mobile WiMAx System Profile Release 1 section 3.3.5,
MIMO, Beamforming, MBS, ETHx are all interoperability features. Four interoperability feature groups are defined as IO-MIMO, IO-BF, IO-MBS, IO-ETHx. Those which pass the test of the interoperability feature groups will be certified with the "WiMAX Certified with NNNN capability" label.

Wave 1 test of Mobile WiMAX will be delayed to 2007 June or July. Wave 2 test will be delayed to 2007/12 or 2008/1