1 b tech _ wireless comm

8/4/2019 1 B Tech _ Wireless Comm

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Mobile Communication


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Recommended Textbooks

Theodore Rappaport, Wireless Communications:

Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Prentice

Hall.

David Tse, Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of

Wireless Communication , Cambridge University

Press.

IEEE Journal Papers.


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What is Wireless and

Mobile Communication?


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Wireless Communication

Transmitting voice and data using

electromagnetic waves in open space

Electromagnetic waves Travel at speed of light (c = 3x108 m/s)

Has a frequency (f) and wavelength (P)

c = f x P

Higher frequency means higher energy photons

The higher the energy photon the more penetrating is

the radiation


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Electromagnetic Spectrum

104 102 100 10-2 10-4 10-6 10-8 10-10 10-12 10-14 10-16

104 106 108 1010 1012 1014 1016 1018 1020 1022 1024

IR UV X-RaysCosmic

Rays

Radio

Spectrum

1MHz ==100m

100MHz ==1m

10GHz ==1cm< 30 KHz VLF

30-300KHz LF

300KHz 3MHz MF

3 MHz 30MHz HF30MHz 300MHz VHF

300 MHz 3GHz UHF

3-30GHz SHF

> 30 GHz EHF

Micro

wave

Visible light


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Wavelength of Some Technologies

GSM Phones: frequency ~= 900 Mhz

wavelength ~= 33cm

PCS Phones frequency ~= 1.8 Ghz

wavelength ~= 17.5 cm

Bluetooth: frequency ~= 2.4Gz

wavelength ~= 12.5cm


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Frequency Carries/Channels

The information from sender to receiver is carrier

over a well defined frequency band.

This is called a channel

Each channel has a fixed frequency bandwidth (inKHz) and Capacity (bit-rate)

Different frequency bands (channels) can be used

to transmit information in parallel and

independently.


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Example

Assume a spectrum of 90KHz is allocated over a basefrequency b for communication between stations A and B

Assume each channel occupies 30KHz.

There are 3 channels

Each channel is simplex (Transmission occurs in one way)

For full duplex communication: Use two different channels (front and reverse channels)

Use time division in a channel

Channel 1 (b - b+30)

Channel 2 (b+30 - b+60)

Channel 3 (b+60 - b+90)

Station A Station B


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OVERVIEW: Different Wireless

Systems High Speed Local and Personal Area

Networks: Bluetooth

Cordless Telephones

Cellular Telephony

Wide Area Wireless Data Systems

Paging Messaging Systems

Satellite Based Mobile Systems


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Example of a Personal Area Network (PAN) as

provided by the Bluetooth standard.

2.4 Ghz Band

Frequency Hopping TDD

Each channel 1 MHzBandwidth &Hops at 1600

hops/second 625 uSecond slot: single

packet

GFSK Modulation

Support High Interference

levels FEC, ARQ : BER: 10-3

Open Standard


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Example of a Personal Area Network (PAN) as

provided by the Bluetooth standard.


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Cordless Telephones

Characterized by

Low mobility (in terms of range and speed)

Low power consumption

Two-way wireless voice communication

High circuit quality

Low cost equipment, long talk-time

No handoffs between base units

Usage

At homes

At public places where cordless phone base units are

available


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Cordless Telephones: Features

Few users per MHz

Few users per base unit: Large number of baseunits per usage area

Short transmission range

32 Kb/s adaptive differential pulse codemodulation (ADPCM) digital speech encoding

Tx power


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Cordless Telephones

Cordless

Phone

Base unit

PSTNTelephone

Network


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Basic Cellular Architecture

Base Station

(BS) Mobile Station

Base Station

Controller

Mobility

Database

Mobile

Switching

Center

(MSC)

Radio Network

Public Switched

Telephone Network


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Cellular System Architecture


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Mobile / Cellular Telephony

Characterized by

High mobility provision

Wide-range

Two-way tetherless voice communication Handoff and roaming support

Integrated with sophisticated public switched telephone

network (PSTN)

High transmit power requires at the handsets (~2W)


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Cellular Telephony / Mobile Systems

Mobile users and

handsets

Base stations

Provides gatewayfunctionality between

wireless and wireline links

Mobile switching centers

Connect cellular system tothe terrestrial telephone

network


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The mobile station (MS) comprises all user equipment and software.

MS refers to the Mobile Phone. i.e. the handset held

by the users in the mobile network. This is the terminology of 2G systems like GSM. In the

3G systems, MS (mobile station) is now referred asUser Equipment UE.

In GSM, the Mobile Station consists of four maincomponents: Mobile Terminal (MT)- offers common functions that are used by

all the service the Mobile Station offers.

Terminal Equipment (TE) - is a peripheral device of the MobileStation and offers services to the user. It does not contain any

functions specific to GSM. Terminal Adapter (TA) - hides radio-specific characteristics.

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) - is a personalization of theMobile Station and stores user specific parameters (such asmobile number, contacts etc).


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Base Station or base transceiver station

A base transceiver station or cell site(BTS) is a piece of equipment that

facilitates wireless communication

between user equipment (UE) and a

network.

UEs are devices like mobile phones(handsets), WLL phones, computers with

wireless internet connectivity, WiFi and

WiMAX gadgets etc.

The network can be that of any of the

wireless communication technologies likeGSM, CDMA, WLL, WAN, WiFi, WiMAX etc.

BTS is also referred to as the radio base

station (RBS), node B (in 3G Networks)


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Transceiver (TRX) Quite widely referred to as the driver receiver (DRX). Basically

does transmission and reception of signals. Also does sending andreception of signals to/from higher network entities (like the basestation controller in mobile telephony)

Power amplifier (PA) Amplifies the signal from DRX for transmission through antenna;

may be integrated with DRX.

Combiner

Combines feeds from several DRXs so that they could be sent out

through a single antenna. Allows for a reduction in the number ofantenna used.


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Duplexer For separating sending and receiving signals to/from antenna.

Does sending and receiving signals through the same antennaports (cables to antenna).

Antenna

This is also considered a part of the BTS.

Alarm extension system Collects working status alarms of various units in the BTS and

extends them to operations and maintenance (O&M) monitoringstations.

Control function

Control and manages the various units of BTS including any

software. On-the-spot configurations, status changes, softwareupgrades, etc. are done through the control function.

Baseband receiver unit (BBxx)

Frequency hopping, signal DSP, etc..


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MSC

The mobile switching center(MSC) the primary service delivery node

for GSM, responsible for handling voice

calls and SMS as well as other

services (such as conferencecalls, FAX and circuit switcheddata).

The MSC sets up and releasesthe end-to-end connection,

handles mobility and hand-overrequirements during the call andtakes care of charging and realtime pre-paid account monitoring.


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MSC

The gateway MSC (G-MSC) determines which visited MSC

the subscriber who is being

called is currently located.

interfaces with the PSTN.

All mobile to mobile calls and PSTN to

mobile calls are routed through a G-MSC.

The visited MSC (V-MSC) is the MSC where a customer is currently located. The VLR

associated with this MSC will have the subscriber's data in it.

The anchor MSC is the MSC from which a handover has been initiated. The target

MSC is the MSC toward which a Handover should take place. Amobile switching centre server is a part of the redesigned MSCconcept starting from 3GPP Release 5.


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Architecture


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The Cellular Concept


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Wireless System Definitions

Mobile Station A station in the cellular radio service intended for use while

in motion at unspecified locations. They can be either hand-

held personal units (portables) or installed on vehicles

(mobiles)

Base station A fixed station in a mobile radio system used for radio

communication with the mobile stations. Base stations are

located at the center or edge of a coverage region. They

consists of radio channels and transmitter and receiver

antennas mounted on top of a tower.


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Mobile Switching Center Switching center which coordinates the routing of calls in a

large service area. In a cellular radio system, the MSC

connections the cellular base stations and the mobiles to

the PSTN (telephone network). It is also called MobileTelephone Switching Office (MTSO)

Subscriber A user who pays subscription charges for using a mobile

communication system

Transceiver A device capable of simultaneously transmitting and

receiving radio signals


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Control Channel Radio channel used for transmission of call setup, call

request, call initiation and other beacon and control

purposes.

Forward Channel Radio channel used for transmission of information from

the base station to the mobile

Reverse Channel

Radio channel used for transmission of information frommobile to base station


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Simplex Systems Communication systems which provide only one-way

communication

HalfD

uplex Systems Communication Systems which allow two-way

communication by using the same radio channel for both

transmission and reception. At any given time, the user can

either transmit or receive information.

Full Duplex Systems Communication systems which allow simultaneous two-way

communication. Transmission and reception is typically on

two different channels (FDD).


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Handoff The process of transferring a mobile station from one

channel or base station to an other.

Roamer A mobile station which operates in a service area (market)

other than that from which service has been subscribed.

Page A brief message which is broadcast over the entire service

area, usually in simulcast fashion by many base stations atthe same time.


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Degrees of Mobility

Walking Users Low speed

Small roaming area

Usually uses high-bandwith/low-latency access

Vehicles High speeds

Large roaming area

Usually uses low-bandwidth/high-latency access

Uses sophisticated terminal equipment (cell phones)


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What is Mobility

Initially Internet and Telephone Networks isdesigned assuming the user terminals arestatic

No change of location during a call/connection A user terminals accesses the network always from a

fixed location

Mobility and portability

Portability means changing point of attachment tothe network offline

Mobility means changing point of attachment tothe network online


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The Need for Wireless/Mobile

Networking

Demand for Ubiquitous Computing

Anywhere, anytime computing and

communication

You dont have to go to the lab to check your email

Pushing the computers more into background

Focus on the task and life, not on the computer

Use computers seamlessly to help you and to make

your life more easier.

Computers should be location aware

Adapt to the current location, discover services


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Some Example Applications of

Ubiquitous Computing

You walk into your office and your computer

automatically authenticates you through your

active badge and logs you into the Unix

system

You go to a foreign building and your Laptop

automatically discovers the closest public

printer where you can print your scheduleand give to your friend


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More Examples

The cows in a village are equipped with GPS

and GPRS devices and they are monitored

from a central location on a digital map. No need for a person to guide and feed them


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How to realize Ubiquitous Computing

Small and different size computing and

communication devices

Tabs, pads, boards

Handhelds, Laptops, Cell-phones A communication network to support this

Anywhere, anytime access

Seamless, wireless and mobile access

Need for Personal Communication Services (PCS) Ubiquitous Applications

New software


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Current and Emerging Standards


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Simplex Communication

Normally, on a channel, a station can

transmit only in one way. This is called simplex transmission

To enable two-way communication (called

full-duplex communication)

We can use Frequency Division Multiplexing We can use Time Division Multiplexing


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Duplex Communication - FDD

FDD: Frequency Division Duplex

Base Station

B

Mobile

Terminal

M

Forward Channel

Reverse Channel

Forward Channel and Reverse Channel use different frequency

bands


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Duplex Communication - TDD

TDD: Time Division Duplex

Base Station

B

Mobile

Terminal

M

A singe frequency channel is used. The channel is divided into timeslots. Mobile station and base station transmits on the time slots

alternately.

M B M B M B


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Example - Frequency Spectrum

Allocation in U.S. Cellular Radio Service

991 992 1023 1 2 799 991 992 1023 1 2 799

824-849 MHz869

-894 MHz

Reverse Channel Forward Channel

Channel Number Center Frequency (MHz)

Reverse Channel 1


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What is PCS

Personal Communication Services A wide variety of network services that includes

wireless access and personal mobility services

Provided through a small terminal Enables communication at any time, at any place,

and in any form.

The market for such services is tremendouslybig Think of cell-phone market


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Several PCS systems

High-tier Systems

GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications

The mobile telephony system that we are using

IS-136 USA digital cellular mobile telephony system

TDMA based multiple access

Personal Digital Cellular

IS-95 cdmaOne System

CDMA based multiple access


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Several PCS systems

Low-tier systems

Residential, business and public cordless access

applications and systems

Cordless Telephone 2 (CT2)

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone (DECT)

Personal Access Communication Systems (PACS)

Personal Handy Telephone System (PHS)


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Several PCS systems

Wideband wireless systems

ForInternet access and multimedia transfer

Cdma2000

W-CDMA, proposed by Europe

SCDMA, proposed by Chine/Europe


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Several PCS systems

Other PCS Systems

Special data systems

CDPD: CellularDigital Packet Data

RAM Mobile Data

Advanced Radio Data Information System (ARDIS)

Paging Systems

Mobile Satellite Systems

LEO, MEO, HEO satellites for data/voice

ISM band systems: Bluetooth, 802.11, etc.


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PCS issues

How to integrate mobile and wireless users to thePublic Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) (VoiceNetwork)

Cellular mobile telephony system

How to integrate mobile and wireless users to theInternet (Data Network)

Mobile IP, DHCP, CellularIP

How to integrate all of them together and also addmultimedia services (3G Systems)


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InternetPSTN

(Telephone Network)

PCS- Different views

Mobile Users

-Cell phone users-Cordless phone users

Mobile Users

-Laptop users

-Pocket PC users

-Mobile IP, DHCP enabled

computers

Wireless Access

Telecom People View Data Networking People View


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Telecom and Data Networking

-Radio Propagation-Link

Characteristics

-Error Models

-Wireless Medium

Access (MAC)

- Error Control

-Data Transmission-Mobile IP (integrating

mobile hosts to

internet)

-Ad-hoc Networks

-TCP over Wireless

-Service Discovery

- Voice Transmission

- Frequency Reuse- Handoff

Management

-Location Tracking

-Roaming

-QoS

-GSM, CDMA,

Cordless Phones,-GPRS, EDGE

Telecom Interest Data Networking Interest


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Architecture


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Timing diagram illustrating how a call to a mobile user

initiated by a landline subscriber is established


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Timing diagram illustrating how a call initiated by a mobile is

established.


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Cellular Networks First Generation

Analog Systems

Analog Modulation, mostly FM

AMPS

Voice Traffic

FDMA/FDD multiple access

Second Generation (2G) Digital Systems Digital Modulation

Voice Traffic

TDMA/FDD and CDMA/FDD multiple access

2.5G Digital Systems

Voice + Low-datarate Data Third Generation

Digital

Voice + High-datarate Data

Multimedia Transmission also


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2G TechnologiescdmaOne (IS-95) GSM, DCS-1900 IS-54/IS-136

PDC

Uplink Frequencies (MHz) 824-849 (Cellular)

1850-1910 (US PCS)

890-915 MHz (Eurpe)

1850-1910 (US PCS)

800 MHz, 1500 Mhz

(Japan)

1850-1910 (US PCS)

Downlink Frequencies 869-894 MHz (US Cellular)

1930-1990 MHz (US PCS)

935-960 (Europa)

1930-1990 (US PCS)

869-894 MHz (Cellular)

1930-1990 (US PCS)

800 MHz, 1500 MHz

(Japan)Deplexing FDD FDD FDD

Multiple Access CDMA TDMA TDMA

Modulation BPSK with Quadrature

Spreading

GMSK with BT=0.3 TDQPSK

Carrier Seperation 1.25 MHz 200 KHz 30 KHz (IS-136)

(25 KHz PDC)

Channel Data Rate 1.2288 Mchips/sec 270.833 Kbps 48.6 Kbps (IS-136)42 Kbps (PDC)

Voice Channels per

carrier

64 8 3

Speech Coding CELP at 13Kbps

EVRC at 8Kbps

RPE-LTP at 13 Kbps VSELP at 7.95 Kbps


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2G and Data

2G is developed for voice communications

You can send data over 2G channels by

using modem

Provides adat rates in the order of ~9.6 Kbps

Increased data rates are requires for internet

application

This requires evolution towards new systems:2.5 G


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2.5 Technologies

Evolution of TDMA Systems

HSCSD for 2.5G GSM Up to 57.6 Kbps data-rate

GPRS for GSM and IS-136 Up to 171.2 Kbps data-rate

EDGE for 2.5G GSM and IS-136 Up to 384 Kbps data-rate

Evolution of CDMA Systems IS-95B

Up to 64 Kbps


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3G Systems

Goals

Voice and Data Transmission

Simultanous voice and data access

Multi-megabit Internet access Interactive web sessions

Voice-activated calls

Multimedia Content

Live music


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3G Systems

Evolution of Systems CDMA sysystem evaolved to CDMA2000

CDMA2000-1xRTT: Upto 307 Kbps

CDMA2000-1xEV:

CDMA2000-1xEVDO: upto 2.4 Mbps

CDMA2000-1xEVDV: 144 Kbps datarate

GSM, IS-136 and PDC evolved to W-CDMA (WidebandCDMA) (also called UMTS)

Up to 2.048 Mbps data-rates

Future systems 8Mbps

Expected to be fully deployed by 2010-2015

New spectrum is allocated for these technologies


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Interest to 3G Applications

Western Eastern USA

Europe Europe

Emails 4.5 4.7 4.3

City maps/directions 4.3 4.2 4.2

Latest news 4.0 4.4 4.0

Authorize/enable payment 3.4 3.8 3.0

Banking/trading online 3.5 3.4 3.2

Downloading music 3.1 3.4 3.2

Shopping/reservation 3.0 3.1 2.9

Animated images 2.4 2.7 2.6

Chat rooms, forums 2.3 2.9 2.2

Interactive games 2.0 2.2 2.4

Games for money 1.8 1.8 1.8

(Means based upon a six-point interest scale, where 6 indicates high interest and 1 indicates low interest.)


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Upgrade Paths for 2G Technologies

IS-136PDC

GSMIS-95

IS

-95B

HSCSD

GPRS

EDGE

W-CDMA EDGE

TD-SCDMA

cdma200-1xRTT

cdma2000-1xEV,DV,DO

cdma200-3xRTT

2G

2.5G

3G


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GSM and CDMA Coverage Map

Worldwide


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Overview of the IEEE 802.11

Wireless LAN standard (1997)

Then; : High rate standard 1999; and others

Include Infrared

Both FHSS and DSSS used in original standard

DSSS now High data rate: DSSS IEEE 802.11b: WI-Fi


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IEEE 802.11g :

Developing CCK-

OF

DM in both 2.4 Ghz (802.11b) & 5GHz (802.11a)bands

Support Roaming

Dual-band use for WAN

Backward compatibility with 802.11b


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Major Mobile Radio Standards

USA

Standard Type Year

Intro

Multiple

Access

Frequency

Band

(MHz)

Modulation Channel

BW

(KHz)

AMPS Cellular 1983 FDMA 824-894 FM 30

USDC Cellular 1991 TDMA 824-894 DQPSK 30

CDPD Cellular 1993 FH/Packet 824-894 GMSK 30

IS-95 Cellular/PCS 1993 CDMA 824-894

1800-2000

QPSK/BPSK 1250

FLEX Paging 1993 Simplex Several 4-FSK 15

DCS-1900(GSM)

PCS 1994 TDMA 1850-1990 GMSK 200

PACS Cordless/PCS 1994 TDMA/FDMA 1850-1990 DQPSK 300


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Major Mobile Radio Standards -

EuropeStandard Type Year

Intro

Multiple

Access

Frequency

Band

(MHz)

Modulation Channel

BW

(KHz)

ETACS Cellular 1985 FDMA 900 FM 25

NMT-900 Cellular 1986 FDMA 890-960 FM 12.5

GSM Cellular/PCS 1990 TDMA 890-960 GMSK 200KHz

C-450 Cellular 1985 FDMA 450-465 FM 20-10

ERMES Paging 1993 FDMA4 Several 4-FSK 25

CT2 Cordless 1989 FDMA 864-868 GFSK 100

DECT Cordless 1993 TDMA 1880-1900 GFSK 1728

DCS-1800 Cordless/PCS 1993 TDMA 1710-1880 GMSK 200


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System Design

Fundamentals


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Design Objective:

? Single Tx or Multiple Tx

? (Coverage area Large: Small)

Single High Power Tx :

Large Coverage area but Spectrum efficiency ??

1970, BELL: NY: Supported 12 Calls only over 1000 Sq

miles No. of Users : Capacity of System

Spectral Congestion


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Solved the problem of SpectralCongestion and Users Capacity

System-level idea:

Large cell: X Small Cells

Many low-power transmitters:coverage to a small portion of

service area.


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Cellular Networks


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Many low-power transmitters: coverage toa small portion of service area.

One Transmitter (Base station): a portion of

channels,

nearby stations: different group of channels

All available channels: small no. ofneighboring base stations

neighboring base stations: Different group of

channels: INETFERENCE reduced

Systematic spacing of base stations and

channels: Coverage of service area:Frequency Reuse


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Cellular Network Organization

Use multiple low-power transmitters

Areas divided into cells

Each served by its own antenna

Served by base station consisting of transmitter, receiver,and control unit

Band of frequencies allocated

Cells set up such that antennas of all neighbors are

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Consequences

Transmit frequencies are re-used across thesecells and the system becomes interference ratherthan noise limited the need for careful radio frequency planning colouring

in hexagons!

a mechanism for handling the call as the user crossesthe cell boundary - call handoff (or handover)

increased network complexity to route the call and trackthe users as they move around

But one significant benefit: very much increased

traffic capacity, the ability to service many users

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