High speed and high quality communication is the requirement of users in the public environment for transmission of different forms of data. WiMax technology is able to provide the data at high communication rate and with higher bandwidth. The incorporation of MIMO technique in WiMax system not only provide robust platform to fading but boost up the system performance. In this paper, 2×2 WiMax MIMO architecture is simulated with specification of different modulation techniques (64-QAM,BPSK) and for different fading channels (Rayleigh, AWGN) by using MATLAB. The analysis results are generated in terms of BER rate. The simulation results identified that the communication in WiMax MIMO is achieved at lower BER rate.

WiMax, MIMO, Rayleigh, AWGN, Modulation Scheme, BER

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