Sunday, February 17, 2013

Spread Spectrum

Spread Spectrum, an in-depth introduction

Technology beyond 3G

From 2G, 2.5G, 3G (IMS, IP Multimedia Subsystem), 3.5G/HSDPA, to 4G

Computer Communications (IT), IP-based, WiFi (Data Comm.), VoIP

Data Services
  • GSM, Circuit Switching, 9.6 (*2), 12.4(*2, HSCSD)
  • GPRS, General Packet Radio Services, Packet Switching, 9.05 kbps/13.4 kbps (*1,2,3,4), speed denoted as *u*d
  • EDGE, 3 times of speed of GPRS by using 8-PSK instead of binary GMSK
  • 3G, 384kbps, up to 2 Mbps, uplink is 128 kbps
  • 3.5G HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 8-10 Mbps (R5), and 20 Mbps (R6) by MIMO, uplink is 384 kbps
  • 4G communication at 100 Mbit/s while moving, and 1 Gbit/s while stationary.

In general, a generation is defined by the result of technology changes over a 10-15 year time frame. Thus, 4G would refer to whatever is deployed in the 2010-2015 period, assuming 3G deployment spans the 2000-2009 period.

cellular technology



1. Start of the cellular technology, the need for new commercial applications of wireless
2. the bottleneck of capacity
3. Examine capacity of FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA (Is TDMA of the same efficiency as FDMA?))
  • TDMA:FDMA 7(theoretically), 3(practically)
  • CDMA:FDMA 40(theoretically), 10 (practically)
4. Why cellular is better than broadcast?
5. Digital wireless with TDMA, CDMA
  • advanced of digital ICs
  • price drop
6. Major issues with CDMA

  • near-far field effect
  • hand-off

  • 7. and their solutions
    • Power control
    • soft handoff
    8. Make use of dead time in telephone conversations, about 65% of the time
    • variable-rate coder

    reference: Chap. 1~Chap. 6, Dave Mock, the Qualcomm Equation, AMACOM, 2005

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    授課單元與授課老師
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    101-2學期時間1-78C鍾老師系上有必修科目工程數學二要教授,
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    老師的想法是,他上課的那三次,上課的時段為 1-B, 及1-DE,

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