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1. What Is Telecommunications?
2. Historical Perspective.
3. Wired communication
4. Wireless communication
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5.4.2. Capacity
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5.4.3. Disadvantages
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5.4.4. Advantage
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1. What Is Telecommunications?
Telecommunication is communication at a distance by technological means, particularly
through electrical signals or electromagnetic waves. [1][2][3][4][5][6] The word is often used in its
plural form, telecommunications, because it involves many different technologies.
Telecommunications is no longer about just the wires and devices, but the cumulative value of
the things that the network delivers for customers. It is about making tremendous amount of data
accessible and easy to use for billions of users. The best and leading products and services will
be those that are completely transparent and offer the most value to the quality-of-life in realtime. --------David Belanger, Chief Scientist, AT & T Labs.[7]
Telecommunications has been defined as a technology concerned with Communicating from a
distance, and we can categorize it in various ways.
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2. Historical Perspective
18001837 Preliminary developments: Volta discovers the primary battery; Fourier and Laplace
present mathematical treatises; Ampere, Faraday, and Henry conduct experiments on electricity
and magnetism; Ohms law (1826); Gauss, Weber, and Wheatstone develop early telegraph
systems.
18381866 Telegraphies: Morse perfects his system; Steinhill finds that the earth can be used for
a current path; commercial service is initiated
(1844); multiplexing techniques are devised; William Thomson calculates the pulse response of a
telegraph line
(1855); transatlantic cables are installed.
(1845); Kirchhoffs circuit laws.
1864 Maxwells equations predict electromagnetic radiation.
18761899 Telephony: Alexander Graham Bell perfects acoustic transducer; first telephony
exchange with eight lines; Edisons carbon-button transducer; cable circuits are introduced;
Strowger devises automatic step-by-step switching (1887); Pupin presents the theory of loading.
18871907 Wireless telegraphy: Heinrich Hertz verifies Maxwells theory; demonstrations by
Marconi and Popov; Marconi patents complete wireless telegraph system (1897); commercial
service begins, including ship-to-shore and transatlantic systems.
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19621966 Data transmission service offered commercially; PCM proves feasible for voice and
TV transmission; theory for digital transmission is developed; Viterbi presents new error
correcting schemes; adaptive equalization is developed.
1964 Fully electronic telephone switching system is put into service.
1965 Mariner IV transmits pictures from Mars to Earth.
19661975 Commercial satellite relay becomes available; optical links using lasers and fiber
optics are introduced; ARPANET is created (1969) followed by international computer
networks.
1976 Ethernet LAN invented by Metcalfe and Broggs (Xerox) .
19681969 Digitalization of telephone network begins.
19701975 PCM standards developed by CCITT.
19751985 High-capacity optical systems developed; the breakthrough of optical technology and
fully integrated switching systems; digital signal processing by microprocessors.
19801983 Start of global Internet based on TCP/IP protocol .
19801985 Modern cellular mobile networks put into service, NMT in Northern Europe, AMPS
in the United States, OSI reference model is defined by International Standards Organization
(ISO). Standardization for second generation digital cellular systems is initialized.
19851990 LAN breakthrough; Integrated Services Digital Network
(ISDN) standardization finalized; public data communications services become widely available;
optical transmission systems replace copper systems in long-distance wideband transmission;
SONET is developed. GSM and SDH standardization finalized.
1989; Initial proposal for a Web-linked document on the World Wide Web (WWW) by Tim
Berners-Lee (CERN) [2].
19901997 The first digital cellular system, Global System for Mobile Communications
(GSM) is put into commercial use and its breakthrough is felt worldwide; deregulation of
telecommunications in Europe proceeds and satellite TV systems become popular; Internet usage
and services expand rapidly because of the WWW.
19972001 Telecommunications community is deregulated and business grows rapidly; digital
cellular networks, especially GSM, expand worldwide; commercial applications of Internet
expand and a share of conventional speech communications is transferred from public switched
telephone network (PSTN) to Internet; performance of LANs improves with advance of gigabitper-second Ethernet technologies.
20012005 Digital TV starts to replace analog broadcast TV; broadband access systems make
Internet multimedia services available to all; telephony service turns to personal communication
service as penetration of cellular and PCS systems increases; second generation cellular systems
are upgraded to provide higher rate packet-switched data service.
2005 Digital TV will replace analog service and start to provide interactive services in addition
to broadcast service; third generation cellular systems and WLAN technologies will provide
enhanced data services for mobile users; location-based mobile services will expand,
applications for wireless short-haul technologies in homes and offices will increase; global
telecommunications network will evolve toward a common packet-switched network platform
for all types of services. [9]
3. Wired communication
Wired communications make use of underground communications cables (less often, overhead
lines), electronic signal amplifiers (repeaters) inserted into connecting cables at specified points,
and terminal apparatus of various types, depending on the type of wired communications used.[10]
4. Wireless communication
Wireless communication involves the transmission of information over a distance without help
of wires, cables or any other forms of electrical conductors.[11] Wireless operations permit
services, such as long-range communications, that are impossible or impractical to implement
with the use of wires. The term is commonly used in the telecommunications industry to refer to
telecommunications systems (e.g. radio transmitters and receivers, remote controls etc.) which
use some form of energy (e.g. radio waves, acoustic energy, etc.) to transfer information without
the use of wires.[12] Information is transferred in this manner over both short and long
distances.[13]
Developers need to consider some parameters involving Wireless RF technology for better
developing wireless networks:
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In cities, each cell site may have a range of up to approximately 12 mile (0.80 km), while in rural
areas; the range could be as much as 5 miles (8.0 km). It is possible that in clear open areas, a
user may receive signals from a cell site 25 miles (40 km) away.
Since almost all mobile phones use cellular technology, including GSM, CDMA, and AMPS
(analog), the term "cell phone" is in some regions, notably the US, used interchangeably with
"mobile phone". However, satellite phones are mobile phones that do not communicate directly
with a ground-based cellular tower, but may do so indirectly by way of a satellite.
There are a number of different digital cellular technologies, including: Global System for
Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), cdmaOne,
CDMA2000, Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
(EDGE), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Digital Enhanced Cordless
Telecommunications (DECT), Digital AMPS (IS-136/TDMA), and Integrated Digital Enhanced
Network (iDEN).[32]
Roughly every ten years new mobile phone technology and infrastructure involving a change in
the fundamental nature of the service, non-backwards-compatible transmission technology,
higher peak data rates, new frequency bands, and wider channel frequency bandwidth in Hertz
becomes available. These transitions are referred to as generations. The first mobile data services
became available during the second generation (2G).[34][35][36]
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5.4.1. 2G technologies:
2G technologies can be divided into Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)-based and Code
Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-based standards depending on the type of multiplexing used.
The main 2G standards are:
GSM (TDMA-based), originally from Europe but used in almost all countries on all six
inhabited continents. Today accounts for over 80% of all subscribers around the world.
Over 60 GSM operators are also using CDMA2000 in the 450 MHz frequency band
(CDMA450).[42]
IS-95 aka cdmaOne (CDMA-based, commonly referred as simply CDMA in the US),
used in the Americas and parts of Asia. Today accounts for about 17% of all subscribers
globally. Over a dozen CDMA operators have migrated to GSM including operators in
Mexico, India, Australia and South Korea.
PDC (TDMA-based), used exclusively in Japan
iDEN (TDMA-based), proprietary network used by Nextel in the United States and Telus
Mobility in Canada
IS-136 a.k.a. D-AMPS (TDMA-based, commonly referred as simply 'TDMA' in the US),
was once prevalent in the Americas but most have migrated to GSM.
2G services are frequently referred as Personal Communications Service, or PCS, in the United
States.
5.4.2. Capacity:
Using digital signals between the handsets and the towers increases system capacity in two key
ways:
Digital voice data can be compressed and multiplexed much more effectively than analog
voice encodings through the use of various codecs, allowing more calls to be transmitted
in same amount of radio bandwidth.
The digital systems were designed to emit less radio power from the handsets. This meant
that cells had to be smaller, so more cells had to be placed in the same amount of space.
This was possible because cell towers and related equipment had become less expensive.
With GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), you have a theoretical transfer speed of
max. 50 kbit/s (40 kbit/s in practice).
With EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution), you have a theoretical transfer
speed of max. 1 mbit/s (500 kbit/s in practice).
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5.4.3. Disadvantages
In less populous areas, the weaker digital signal transmitted by a cellular phone may not
be sufficient to reach a cell tower. This tends to be a particular problem on 2G systems
deployed on higher frequencies, but is mostly not a problem on 2G systems deployed on
lower frequencies. National regulations differ greatly among countries which dictate
where 2G can be deployed.
Analog has a smooth decay curve, but digital has a jagged steppy one. This can be both
an advantage and a disadvantage. Under good conditions, digital will sound better. Under
slightly worse conditions, analog will experience static, while digital has occasional
dropouts. As conditions worsen, though, digital will start to completely fail, by dropping
calls or being unintelligible, while analog slowly gets worse, generally holding a call
longer and allowing at least some of the audio transmitted to be understood.
5.4.4. Advantage
While digital calls tend to be free of static and background noise, the lossy compression
they use reduces their quality, meaning that the range of sound that they convey is
reduced. Talking on a digital cell phone, a caller hears less of the tonality of someone's
voice.
5.4.5 Evolution of 2G
2G networks were built mainly for voice services and slow data transmission (defined in IMT2000 specification documents), but are considered by the general public to be 2.5G or 2.75G
services because they are several times slower than present-day 3G service.
2.5G ("second and a half generation") is used to describe 2G-systems that have implemented a
packet-switched domain in addition to the circuit-switched domain. It does not necessarily
provide faster services because bundling of timeslots is used for circuit-switched data services
(HSCSD) as well. The first major step in the evolution of GSM networks to 3G occurred with the
introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). CDMA2000 networks similarly evolved
through the introduction of 2.5G
2.75G (EDGE) GPRS1 networks evolved to EDGE networks with the introduction of 8PSK
encoding. Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), or IMT
Single Carrier (IMT-SC) is a backward-compatible digital mobile phone technology that allows
improved data transmission rates, as an extension on top of standard GSM. EDGE was deployed
on GSM networks beginning in 2003initially by AT&T in the United States.
EDGE is standardized by 3GPP as part of the GSM family and it is an upgrade that provides a
potential three-fold increase in capacity of GSM/GPRS networks.The 2G digital service provided
very useful feature like; expended capacity and unique service such as caller ID,call forwarding,
and short messaging.
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United States
Various carriers such as AT&T have made announcements that 2G GSM technology in the
United States is in the process of being shut down so that carriers can reclaim those radio bands
and re-purpose them for future technology needs. The shut down will be complete by the end of
2016. [ All 2G GSM devices will lose service at some point between now and the end of 2016.[47]
This shut down is having a notable impact on the electronic security industry where many 2G
GSM radios are in use for alarm signal communication to Central Station dispatch centers. 2G
GSM radios must be replaced by newer generation radios to avoid service outages.[48]
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the UMTS system, first offered in 2001, standardized by 3GPP, used primarily in Europe, Japan,
China (however with a different radio interface) and other regions predominated
by GSM 2G system infrastructure. The cell phones are typically UMTS and GSM hybrids.
Several radio interfaces are offered, sharing the same infrastructure:
The above systems and radio interfaces are based on spread spectrum radio transmission
technology. While the GSM EDGE standard ("2.9G"), DECT cordless phones and Mobile
WiMAX standards formally also fulfill the IMT-2000 requirements and are approved as 3G
standards by ITU, these are typically not branded 3G, and are based on completely different
technologies.
The following common standards comply with the IMT2000/3G standard:
EDGE, a revision by the 3GPP organization to the older 2G GSM based transmission
methods, utilizing the same switching nodes, base station sites and frequencies as GPRS,
but new base station and cell phone RF circuits. It is based on the three times as
efficient 8PSK modulation scheme as supplement to the original GMSK modulation
scheme. EDGE is still used extensively due to its ease of upgrade from existing 2G GSM
infrastructure and cell-phones.
EDGE combined with the GPRS 2.5G technology is called EGPRS, and allows peak data
rates in the order of 200 kbit/s, just as the original UMTS WCDMA versions, and thus
formally fulfills the IMT2000 requirements on 3G systems. However, in practice EDGE
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EDGE was also a mode in the IS-135 TDMA system, today ceased.
Evolved EDGE, the latest revision, has peaks of 1 Mbit/s downstream and 400 kbit/s
upstream, but is not commercially used.
The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, created and revised by the 3GPP. The
family is a full revision from GSM in terms of encoding methods and hardware, although some
GSM sites can be retrofitted to broadcast in the UMTS/W-CDMA format.
W-CDMA is the most common deployment, commonly operated on the 2,100 MHz
band. A few others use the 850, 900 and 1,900 MHz bands.
HSPA+, a further revision and upgrade of HSPA, can provide theoretical peak data rates
up to 168 Mbit/s in the downlink and 22 Mbit/s in the uplink, using a combination of air
interface improvements as well as multi-carrier HSPA and MIMO. Technically though,
MIMO and DC-HSPA can be used without the "+" enhancements of HSPA+
CDMA2000 1x Rev. E has an increased voice capacity (in excess of three times)
compared to Rev. 0 EVDO Rev. B offers downstream peak rates of 14.7 Mbit/s while
Rev. C enhanced existing and new terminal user experience.
While DECT cordless phones and Mobile WiMAX standards formally also fulfill the IMT-2000
requirements, they are not usually considered due to their rarity and unsuitability for usage with
mobile phones. [50]
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5.5.3 Features of 3G
5.5.3.1 Data rates
ITU has not provided a clear definition of the data rate that users can expect from 3G equipment
or providers. Thus users sold 3G service may not be able to point to a standard and say that the
rates it specifies are not being met. While stating in commentary that "it is expected that IMT2000 will provide higher transmission rates: a minimum data rate of 2 Mbit/s for stationary or
walking users, and 384 Kbit/s in a moving vehicle," the ITU does not actually clearly specify
minimum required rates, nor required average rates, nor what modes of the interfaces qualify as
3G, so various data rates are sold as '3G' in the market. Compare with 3.5G and 4G.
In India, 3G is defined by telecom service providers as minimum 2 Mbit/s to maximum 28
Mbit/s.
5.5.3.2 Security
3G networks offer greater security than their 2G predecessors. By allowing the UE (User
Equipment) to authenticate the network it is attaching to, the user can be sure the network is the
intended one and not an impersonator. 3G networks use the KASUMI block cipher instead of the
older A5/1 stream cipher. However, a number of serious weaknesses in the KASUMI cipher
have been identified.
In addition to the 3G network infrastructure security, end-to-end security is offered when
application frameworks such as IMS are accessed, although this is not strictly a 3G property.[50]
5.5.4 Applications of 3G
The bandwidth and location information available to 3G devices gives rise to applications not
previously available to mobile phone users. Some of the applications are:
5.5.5 Evolution of 3G
Both 3GPP and 3GPP2 are working on extensions to 3G standard that are based on an all-IP
network infrastructure and using advanced wireless technologies such as MIMO. These
specifications already display features characteristic for IMT-Advanced (4G), the successor of
3G. However, falling short of the bandwidth requirements for 4G (which is 1 Gbit/s for
stationary and 100 Mbit/s for mobile operation), these standards are classified as 3.9G or Pre-4G.
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3GPP plans to meet the 4G goals with LTE Advanced, whereas Qualcomm has halted
development of UMB in favour of the LTE family.[50]
On 14 December 2009, Telia Sonera announced in an official press release that "We are very
proud to be the first operator in the world to offer our customers 4G services."[52] With the
launch of their LTE network, initially they are offering pre-4G (or beyond 3G) services in
Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.
IMT-Advanced compliant versions and "a substantial level of improvement in performance and
capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed".[50]
Mobile WiMAX Release 2 (also known as WirelessMAN-Advanced or IEEE 802.16m')
and LTE Advanced (LTE-A) are IMT-Advanced compliant backwards compatible versions of
the above two systems, standardized during the spring 2011, and promising speeds in the order
of 1 Gbit/s. Services were expected in 2013.
As opposed to earlier generations, a 4G system does not support traditional circuitswitched telephony service, but all-Internet Protocol (IP) based communication such as IP
telephony. As seen below, the spread spectrum radio technology used in 3G systems, is
abandoned in all 4G candidate systems and replaced by OFDMA multi-carrier transmission and
other frequency-domain equalization(FDE) schemes, making it possible to transfer very high bit
rates despite extensive multi-path radio propagation (echoes). The peak bit rate is further
improved by smart antenna arrays for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications.
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Implementations of Mobile WiMAX and first-release LTE are largely considered a stopgap
solution that will offer a considerable boost until WiMAX 2 (based on the 802.16m spec) and
LTE Advanced are deployed. The latter's standard versions were ratified in spring 2011, but are
still far from being implemented.
The first set of 3GPP requirements on LTE Advanced was approved in June 2008.[53] LTE
Advanced was to be standardized in 2010 as part of Release 10 of the 3GPP specification. LTE
Advanced will be based on the existing LTE specification Release 10 and will not be defined as
a new specification series. A summary of the technologies that have been studied as the basis for
LTE Advanced is included in a technical report.
Some sources consider first-release LTE and Mobile WiMAX implementations as pre-4G or
near-4G, as they do not fully comply with the planned requirements of 1 Gbit/s for stationary
reception and 100 Mbit/s for mobile.
Confusion has been caused by some mobile carriers who have launched products advertised as
4G but which according to some sources are pre-4G versions, commonly referred to as
'3.9G', which do not follow the ITU-R defined principles for 4G standards, but today can be
called 4G according to ITU-R. A common argument for branding 3.9G systems as newgeneration is that they use different frequency bands from 3G technologies ;] that they are based
on a new radio-interface paradigm ; and that the standards are not backwards compatible with
3G, whilst some of the standards are forwards compatible with IMT-2000 compliant versions of
the same standards.[53]
LTE Advanced LTE Advanced (Long Term Evolution Advanced) is a candidate for IMTAdvanced standard, formally submitted by the 3GPP organization to ITU-T in the fall 2009, and
expected to be released in 2013. The target of 3GPP LTE Advanced is to reach and surpass the
ITU requirements. LTE Advanced is essentially an enhancement to LTE. It is not a new
technology, but rather an improvement on the existing LTE network. This upgrade path makes it
more cost effective for vendors to offer LTE and then upgrade to LTE Advanced which is similar
to the upgrade from WCDMA to HSPA. LTE and LTE Advanced will also make use of
additional spectrums and multiplexing to allow it to achieve higher data speeds. Coordinated
Multi-point Transmission will also allow more system capacity to help handle the enhanced data
speeds. Release 10 of LTE is expected to achieve the IMT Advanced speeds. Release 8 currently supports
up to 300 Mbit/s of download speeds which is still short of the IMT-Advanced standards.
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IEEE 802.16m or WirelessMAN-Advanced The IEEE 802.16m or WirelessMANAdvanced evolution of 802.16e is under development, with the objective to fulfill the IMTAdvanced criteria of 1 Gbit/s for stationary reception and 100 Mbit/s for mobile reception.
The physical radio interface was at an early stage named High Speed OFDM Packet Access
(HSOPA), now named Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA). The first LTE USB
dongles do not support any other radio interface.
The world's first publicly available LTE service was opened in the two Scandinavian capitals,
Stockholm (Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks systems) and Oslo (a Huawei system) on
December 14, 2009, and branded 4G. The user terminals were manufactured by Samsung.[13] As
of November 2012, the five publicly available LTE services in the United States are provided by
MetroPCS,[53] Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, U.S. Cellular, Sprint, and T-Mobile US.
T-Mobile Hungary launched a public beta test (called friendly user test) on 7 October 2011, and
has offered commercial 4G LTE services since 1 January 2012
In South Korea, SK Telecom and LG U+ have enabled access to LTE service since 1 July 2011
for data devices, slated to go nationwide by 2012. KT Telecom closed its 2G service by March
2012, and complete the nationwide LTE service in the same frequency around 1.8 GHz by June
2012.
In the United Kingdom, LTE services were launched by EE in October 2012, and by O2 and
Vodafone in August 2013.
Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e)
The Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) mobile wireless broadband access (MWBA) standard
(also known as WiBro in South Korea) is sometimes branded 4G, and offers peak data rates of
128 Mbit/s downlink and 56 Mbit/s uplink over 20 MHz wide channels.
In June 2006, the world's first commercial mobile WiMAX service was opened by KT in Seoul,
South Korea.
Sprint has begun using Mobile WiMAX, as of 29 September 2008, branding it as a "4G" network
even though the current version does not fulfil the IMT Advanced requirements on 4G systems.
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In Russia, Belarus and Nicaragua WiMax broadband internet access is offered by a Russian
company Scartel, and is also branded 4G, Yota.
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