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Abstract: In WiMAX networks, the biggest challenge is to overcome the effects of fading especially when nodes are mobile. The multipath nature of channel leads to ISI (Inter Symbol Interference) and the severity of ISI effects increases with bandwidth increase and this might get worse when nodes are moving . The radio link between the Base Station and Service Station/Mobile Station can be a LOS or it can be a NLOS. The environmental objects and features like buildings, weather conditions can severely obstruct NLOS signal. In this paper the effect of pedestrian multipath and node mobility in WiMAX network is studied under different codecs schemes in order to evaluate the effect of multipath channel fading when nodes are moving on the QoS parameters end to end delay, jitter, mean opinion score and throughput of a VoIP application. The obtained results showed that multipath fading with mobile nodes has sever effect on throughput and MOS value for all studied codecs and on the other parameters the effect varies depending on the implemented codecs. arabic 14 English 71