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UMTS Overview

UMTS Overview
GSM, UMTS & LTE Fundamentals

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Module Objectives

Get basic understanding of mobile networks as well as 3G


Identify the motivation factors for 3G

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Module Contents

Cellular System
UMTS
Standardization
UMTS Evolution
Comparison with mobile technologies

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1st mobile service:


Bell System Mobile
Radiotelephone Service
St. Louis, USA (1946)

radius

Single Cell Systems:


Frequency Reuse
No handover, small service area
Poor service and speech quality
Manual switching
Cumbersome, bulky, and expensive equipment
Used until 1980s

Quantum Leap in mobile telecommunications:


Single Cell System to Cellular System (1G)
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Principle of Cellular Systems

6 Advantage:
6 7 8 Capacity
7 8 1 Roaming
1 4 5 Handover
4 5 9 6
9 6 7 8 1980-2000
7 8 1 Growth Sales of
1 4 5 Cellular Networks
4 5 9 > 50% / year
9

Country System Frequency Range Year of Introduction


USA AMPS 800 1979
Japan NTT-MTS 800 1979
Scandinavia NMT 450, 900 1981-86
Great Britain TACS 900 1985
Germany C450 450 1985

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Advantages of Digital Data Transmission


Input Data
(original)
Network Capacity: Speech Compression
Supplementary Service: Signaling I love you
Cost: Production, Operation, Maintenance
Miniaturization: Micro Electronics
Transmission Quality: Easy to Regenerate Cipher Cipher
Security: Easy to Cipher Sequence Module

Signal Quality
Digital Signal
Output Data
Analogue Signal (ciphered)

Distance to BS

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3G Services Requred Data Rates

Video Conferences
UMTS offers flexible and
Video-telephony dynamic data rates:
8 2000 kbps
Services

Tele-shopping

Electronic Newspaper, Image/Sound Files

Tele-banking Financial Services

Database Access Information Service

Email

Voice

10 100 1000 10000

Data Rate (kbps)


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UMTS

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GSM and UMTS Evolution


LTE

UMTS

GSM

Phase 2+
Capabilities

Rel. 3
Rel. 8
Rel. 7
Rel. 6
Rel. 5
Phase 2
Rel. 4
Rel. 99
Phase 1 Rel. 98
Rel. 97
Rel. 96

Voice ISDN New Supp. Services WCDMA Bearer IMS I-WLAN HSPA+ OFDMA t
Supp. Indp.
Data Services Data: HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE HSDPA GAN PCC
~9.6kbps Signaling
Flexible Services: CAMEL, MExE HSUPA
LCR-
TDD

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1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation 4th Generation


(1G) (2G) (3G) (4G)
Timeframe 1950s mid 1990s 1990s 2020s (?) 2001 (?) 2010 onwards

Technology NMT, AMPS GSM, D-AMPS IMT-2000, UMTS, IMT-advanced


(USA), PDC CDMA2000, Mobile
(Japan) WiMAX
Standards Mostly proprietary, A number of closed A number of open Integration of
domestic standards standards heterogeneous
standards
Bandwidth Initially < 10 kbps Initially < 2 Mbps 100 Mbps mobile
(theoretical) Evolved to > 50 Evolved to 40 1 Gbps nomadic
kbps Mbps
Analog/Digital Analog radio, Digital Digital Digital
analog/digital
network
CS/PS Circuit Switched Circuit Switched Circuit and Packet All IP
Switched

Cell Radius In the 100 km Kilometers Meters to Centimeters to


range Kilometers Kilometers

Roaming Basic (national Advanced Global (within Global (inter


scope) (continental scope) same technology) technology)

Services Speech Speech, some data Speech, data, web- Any IP-based
(SMS, MMS, WAP) portals, LBS services

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