APRIL 7, 2018

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NETWORK

ASSIGNMENT#2

Presented to: Sir Ammar yasir

PRESENTED BY: GHULAM MUJTABA: CIIT/FA14-BCS-063/VHR (A)

CIIT VEHARI
OFF MULTAN ROAD VEHARI MAILSI ROAD VEHARI
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1G, 2G, 3G AND 4G TECHNOLOGIES
Ever since mobile telecommunications standards were first laid down in the 1980s, there has
been a continuous effort to increase the data rates available to the end users. Once certain levels
of data rates are achieved by the industry, they set even higher targets, driven of course by the
ever increasing demand by the users.
1G, 2G, 3G and 4G basically refer to these standards that were successively laid and met by the
telecommunication sector (both the industry and the academia). The current thrust is towards
reaching the 5th Generation of mobile communications. Behind each of these generations,
there have been one or more breakthrough technologies that helped achieve the quantum
inter-generation leaps in the data rates.
Those are elaborated below:

Properties 1G 2G 3G 4G
Name 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation 4th Generation
Mobile Network Mobile Network Mobile Network Mobile Network

Year of launch 1980 1993 2001 2009

Technology AMPS , NMT, IS-95, GSM IMT2000, LTE, WiMAX

TACS WCDMA

Access System FDMA IS-95, GSM IMT2000, LTE, WiMAX

WCDMA

Switching Type Circuit switching Circuit switching Packet switching Packet switching
for Voice and except for Air
Packet switching Interface
for Data
Data Rates 2.4 Kbps to 14.4 14.4 Kbps 3.1 Mbps 100 Mbps
kbps

Features Voice only Multiple users Multimedia High Speed, real

on single features, Video time streaming
channel Call

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Support Voice only Voice and Data Voice and Data Voice and Data

Bandwidth Analog 25 MHz 25MHz 100MHz

No Internet Narrowband Broadband Ultra Broadband

Operating 800 MHz GSM: 900MHZ, 2100 MHz 850 MHz, 1800
Frequencies 1800MHz MHz
CDMA: 800MHz
Career 30 KHZ 200 KHz 5 MHz 15 MHz
Frequency

Advantages Simpler (less Multimedia High security, Speed, High

complex) features (SMS, international speed handoffs,
network MMS), Internet roaming MIMO
elements access and SIM technology,
introduced Global mobility
Disadvantages Limited capacity, Low network High power Hard to
not secure, poor range, slow data consumption, implement,
battery life, large rates Low network complicated
phone size, coverage, High hardware
background cost of spectrum required
interference license
Applications Voice Calls Voice calls, Short Video High speed
messages, conferencing, applications,
browsing mobile TV, GPS mobile TV,
(partial) Wearable
devices

References:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-1G-2G-3G-4G-and-5G
http://www.zseries.in/telecom%20lab/telecom%20generations/#.WsvQE-dRU-V
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ijis.20140401.01.html

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