2007 Mobile Communications and Mobile Data Technology report

Table of Contents

1. 2G MOBILE SYSTEMS

• 1.1 Introduction, History and Terminology
  • 1.1.1 Mobile cellular defined
  • 1.1.2 1G to 4G and beyond
  • 1.1.3 1G history
  • 1.1.4 Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS)
  • 1.1.5 Terminology and early 2G systems
• 1.2 IS-136 TDMA
  • 1.2.1 800MHz and 1.9GHz
  • 1.2.2 Traffic channels for voice and control
  • 1.2.3 Digital Control Channels (DCCH)
  • 1.2.4 IS-136 future
• 1.3 IS-95, CDMA
  • 1.3.1 Spread spectrum to share radio resources
  • 1.3.2 Forward Error Correction (FEC)
  • 1.3.3 Compatibility with AMPS
  • 1.3.4 Simultaneous transmission and reception
  • 1.3.5 CDMA IS-95A/B features
• 1.4 GSM
  • 1.4.1 Frequencies
  • 1.4.2 Gaussian-filtered Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) modulation
  • 1.4.3 Time and Frequency Division Multiplexing (TDMA and FDMA)
  • 1.4.4 Hearing aid compatibility
  • 1.4.5 Timing and power control
  • 1.4.6 Distance limits
  • 1.4.7 Voice compression
  • 1.4.8 Modulation and interleaving
  • 1.4.9 Frequency hopping

2. 2G - MOBILE DATA SYSTEMS

• 2.1 GSM SIMS
  • 2.1.1 Encryption and SIMs
  • 2.1.2 Emissions and safety
  • 2.1.3 GSM standards development
• 2.2 GSM, GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA system architecture
  • 2.2.1 GSM voice only
  • 2.2.2 GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN)
  • 2.2.3 UMTS Radio Access Network (UTRAN)
• 2.3 SMS text messaging
  • 2.3.1 In-band messaging
  • 2.3.2 Message length limitations
  • 2.3.3 Addressing and interoperability
  • 2.3.4 Spam prevention
  • 2.3.5 SMS as a basis for other services
• 2.4 Enhancements to GSM
  • 2.4.1 CAMEL
  • 2.4.2 CSD and HSCSD

3. 2.5G - MMS, WAP, GPRS, SAIC & EDGE

• 3.1 MMS Messaging and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
  • 3.1.1 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
  • 3.1.2 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
  • 3.1.3 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
• 3.2 Single Antenna Interference Cancellation (SAIC)
  • 3.2.1 Joint Demodulation (JD)
  • 3.2.2 Synchronising base-stations
  • 3.2.3 Overall benefits of SAIC
• 3.3 Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
  • 3.3.1 Enhancement to GSM
  • 3.3.2 Path to 3G
  • 3.3.3 Upgrade from IS-136
  • 3.3.4 EDGE Compact and Classic
  • 3.3.5 New modulation schemes
  • 3.3.6 Reframing Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) and reframing
  • 3.3.7 Incremental reception
  • 3.3.8 Quality of Service (QoS)

4. 3G SYSTEMS

• 4.1 3G Technologies, spreading and scrambling
  • 4.1.1 3G background
  • 4.1.2 3G technologies
  • 4.1.3 Spreading and scrambling
• 4.2 3G UMTS, WCDMA and LTE
  • 4.2.1 UMTS WCDMA
  • 4.2.2 High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
  • 4.2.3 New SIM functions
  • 4.2.4 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE)
  • 4.2.5 Systems Architecture Evolution (SAE)
  • 4.2.6 UMTS vs CDMA2000 and WiMAX
• 4.3 3G CDMA2000, EV-DO, UMB & IMS
  • 4.3.1 CDMA2000
  • 4.3.2 4G Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB)
  • 4.3.3 Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
  • 4.3.4 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
  • 4.3.5 Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC)
  • 4.3.6 Mobile operating systems

5. FMC, UMA, GAN AND FEMTOCELLS

• 5.1 Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC), UMA and GAN
  • 5.1.1 Overview of UMA and GAN
  • 5.1.2 Choice of local wireless technology
• 5.2 UMA/GAN standards
  • 5.2.1 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Session Initiated Protocol (SIP)
  • 5.2.2 3GPP' s GAN standard
• 5.3 Alternative base-station strategies
  • 5.3.1 Macro-nodes
  • 5.3.2 Micro-nodes
  • 5.3.3 Pico-nodes
  • 5.3.4 Distributed antenna systems
  • 5.3.5 Repeaters
  • 5.3.6 Base-station synchronisation
  • 5.3.7 Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) duplexers
• 5.4 Femtocells - home base-stations
  • 5.4.2 Picochip.com' s CPU array chips
  • 5.4.3 UMA/GAN for femto nodes

6. DIGITAL BROADCASTING - MOBILE TV

• 6.1 Broadcasting to handheld devices
  • 6.1.1 3G Networks unsuitable
  • 6.1.2 Mobile broadcasting requirements
  • 6.1.3 Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H)
  • 6.1.4 Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB)
  • 6.1.5 MobaHo (MBSAT) CDM direct broadcast satellite
  • 6.1.6 South Korean S-DMB
  • 6.1.7 MediaFLO
  • 6.1.8 Mobile WiMAX 802.16e
• 6.2 Comparing the major technologies
  • 6.2.1 T-DMB vs DVB-H and MediaFLO
  • 6.2.2 Frequency diversity
  • 6.2.3 Frequency domain power reduction
  • 6.2.4 Time domain power reduction
  • 6.2.5 Time Diversity vs Tune-in Time
  • 6.2.6 Channels per Megahertz

7. AUDIO VISUAL CODING - MPEG

• 7.1 MPEG 1 and MP3
  • 7.1.1 Introduction
  • 7.1.2 Data compression and ‘coding'
  • 7.1.3 MPEG-1
  • 7.1.4 MPEG-1 Audio Layers I and II
  • 7.1.5 MPEG-I Audio Layer III (MP3)
  • 7.1.6 Other lossy audio compression standards
• 7.2 MPEG 2 AAC and Video
  • 7.2.1 Introduction
  • 7.2.2 MPEG-2 Transport Stream
  • 7.2.3 MPEG-2 audio compression
  • 7.2.4 MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
  • 7.2.5 MPEG-4 Parametric Audio Coding - HILN
  • 7.2.6 MPEG-2 video compression
• 7.3 MPEG 4 Video and VRML
  • 7.3.1 Introduction
  • 7.3.2 MPEG-4 Video and multimedia compression
  • 7.3.3 Advanced Video Coding - H.264/AVC
  • 7.3.4 Interactive and VRML elements
  • 7.3.5 MPEG-7 metadata
  • 7.3.6 MPEG-21 Digital Rights Management

8. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

• Exhibit 1 - GSM radio frequencies
• Exhibit 2 - Maximum receiver velocities for DVB-H
• Exhibit 3 - H.264/AVC Levels