GSM Voice and low speed data (9.6 to 14.

4 kbps)
Symbol rate = 270.833Khz or 3.69uSec Timeslot = 156.25 x Symbol = ~577us Frame = 8 x timeslots or 1250 * Symbol rate = ~4.6msec Channel Bandwidth=200Khz

GPRS- General Packet Radio Service ; data communications up to 115kbps (in

theory upto 160kbps); transfer data (in the form of data packets) that are associated with e-mail, image data (MMS), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP ), and the WWW.

EDGE - Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution ; speed 384 kbps and in theory
could reach 473.6 kbps. In general, the speed of EDGE is three times greater than GPRS.

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UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; UMTS uses wideband code

division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technology to offer greater spectral efficiency and bandwidth to mobile network operators.

WCDMA - Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access = 3G

WCDMA can reach speeds of 384 kbps and the days to come will probably increase to around 10Mbps. This technology uses-Wideband AMR (Adaptive Multi-rate) for the codification of sound

(voice codec), so the sound quality is obtained to be better than the previous generation.

Chip rate = 3.84 Mcps Frame length = 10ms, 15-slot Channel Bandwidth= 5Mhz Duplex method - FDD/TDD

256-chip primary synchronization code 64 secondary synchronization code words

The number of chips per data symbol is called the Spreading Factor (SF) Scrambling code is a Gold code sequence

Downlink: Dedicated Physical Channel Data Control (DPDCH) (DPCCH)

Common Physical Channel

Common Pilot Primary Common Control Secondary Common Control Physical downlink Shared Channel Synchronization Acquisition Indicator (AICH) CPCH Access Preamble (AP-AICH) CPCH Collision-Detection/Channel-Assignment (CD/CA-ICH) Paging Indicator CPCH State Indicator

UTRA Channels

UTRA FDD radio interface has logical channels, which are mapped to transport channels, which are again mapped to physical channels. Logical to Transport channel conversion happens in Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, which is a lower sublayer in Data Link Layer (Layer 2). Logical Channels: Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH), Downlink (DL) Paging Control Channel (PCCH), DL Dedicated Control Channel (DCCH), UL/DL Common Control Channel (CCCH), UL/DL Dedicated Traffic Channel (DTCH), UL/DL

Common Traffic Channel (CTCH), Unidirectional (one to many) Transport Channels: Dedicated Transport Channel (DCH), UL/DL, mapped to DCCH and DTCH Broadcast Channel (BCH), DL, mapped to BCCH Forward Access Channel (FACH), DL, mapped to BCCH, CCCH, CTCH, DCCH and DTCH Paging Channel (PCH), DL, mapped to PCCH Random Access Channel (RACH), UL, mapped to CCCH, DCCH and DTCH Uplink Common Packet Channel (CPCH), UL, mapped to DCCH and DTCH Downlink Shared Channel (DSCH), DL, mapped to DCCH and DTCH

Physical Channels: Primary Common Control Physical Channel (PCCPCH), mapped to BCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel (SCCPCH), mapped to FACH, PCH Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), mapped to RACH Dedicated Physical Data Channel (DPDCH), mapped to DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH), mapped to DCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), mapped to DSCH Physical Common Packet Channel (PCPCH), mapped to CPCH Synchronisation Channel (SCH) Common Pilot Channel (CPICH) Acquisition Indicator Channel (AICH) Paging Indication Channel (PICH) CPCH Status Indication Channel (CSICH) Collision Detection/Channel Assignment Indication Channel (CD/CA-ICH)

UTRAN - UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

CDMA2000 1x = 2G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO = 3G HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA are enhancements to the UMTS network.

HSPA - The first HSPA specifications supported increased peak data rates of up to
14 Mbit/s in the downlink and 5.76 Mbit/s in the uplink. It also reduced latency and provided up to five times more system capacity in the downlink and up to twice as much system capacity in the uplink compared to original WCDMA protocols.

HSDPA - The first step required to upgrade WCDMA to HSPA is to improve the downlink by introducing HSDPA. The improved downlink provides up to 14 Mbit/s with significantly reduced latency. The upgrade to HSDPA is often just a software update for most WCDMA networks. Voice calls are usually prioritized over data transfer.

HSUPA - The enhanced uplink increases the data rate (up to 5.8 Mbit/s) Upgrading to HSUPA is usually only a software update. Enhanced Uplink adds a new transport channel to WCDMA, called the Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH). An enhanced uplink creates opportunities for a number of new applications including VoIP

HSPA+ = Evolved High Speed Packet Access = 3G transitional to 4G stage

Evolved HSPA provides data rates up to 84 Mbit/s in the downlink and 10.8 Mbit/s in the uplink (per 5 MHz carrier) with multiple input, multiple output (2x2 MIMO) technologies and higher order modulation (64 QAM). With Dual Cell (aka carrier) technology, these can be doubled.

Dual-Carrier HSDPA, part of 3GPP Release 8, is the natural evolution of HSPA by allowing a user to connect to two cells at once, thereby theoretically doubling the connection speeds for the user.[7] An HSPA+ network can theoretically support up to 28 Mbit/s and 42 Mbit/s with a single cell although real life speeds are far lower. Besides the throughput gain from doubling the number of cells to be used, some diversity and joint scheduling gains can also be achieved.[8] Dual-cell can particularly improve the QoS (Quality of Service) for end users in poor radio reception where they cannot benefit from the other WCDMA capacity improvements (MIMO and higher order modulations) due to poor radio signal quality.

GENERAL STUFF
C-P-N-D = Contents-Platform-Network-Device

ICT = Information Communication Technology = IT (Info Tech) + CT (Commn Tech) + WEB

RCS = Rich Communication Suite [Motivation: Network operators counter attack against (free) mobile messenger services] Features of RCS: Full interoperability Worldwide within different operators and vendors Real time conversation for 1:1 or between group Support file transmission (image, video) during voice call

M2M : Machine to Machine Communication - where all machines (not

only UE but also other devices (TV, refrigerator, ...)) can communicate each other. So, sensor network is a special case of M2M. M2M is intended to communicate with devices scattered around symbolizing IoT (Internet of Things) or NGUN (Next Generation Ubiquitous Network). E.g. for

Automation of agriculture, Management of home/house, Digital camera, Smart grid power management, Network convergence with CCTV, etc.

D2D: Device to Device, means that UE can directly communicate each

other without eNB. By default the eNB will most likely schedule direct communication of two UEs in its cell. The initial access, authentication etc. of the UE is done as usual via LTE/EPC

For details refer:

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GITR/2012/GITR_Chapter1.2_2012.pdf