Definitions

Analog Cellular Technologies

AMPS:

Advanced Mobile Phone System. Developed by Bell Labs in the 1970s and first
used commercially in the United States in 1983. It operates in the 800 MHz band.

N-AMPS:
Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System. Developed by Motorola as an
interim technology between analog and digital. It has some three times greater capacity than AMPS and operates in the 800 MHz range.

D-AMPS:
Digital AMPS a variation of AMPS. Uses 3-timeslot variation of TDMA, also known
as Interim Standard-54 (IS-54). An upgrade to the analogue AMPS. Designed to address the problem of using existing channels more efficiently DAMPS (IS-54) employs the same 30 kHz channel spacing and frequency bands (824-849 and 869-894 MHz) as AMPS. By using TDMA instead of FDMA, IS-54 increases the number of users from 1 to 3 per channel (up to 10 with enhanced TDMA). An AMPS/D-AMPS infrastructure can support use of either analogue AMPS phone or digital D-AMPS phones. This is because the Federal Communications Commission mandated only that digital cellular in the U.S. must act in a dual-mode capacity with analogue. Both operate in the 800 MHz band.

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CDMA:
Code Division Multiple Access. There are now a number of variations of CDMA, in
addition to the original N-CDMA (originally just 'CDMA', or IS-95). Latest variations are B-CDMA or W-CDMA and composite CDMA/TDMA. Developed originally by Qualcomm, CDMA is characterized by high capacity and small cell radius, employing spread-spectrum technology and a special coding scheme. It was adopted by the Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA) in 1993. The CDMA-based networks are now operational. B-CDMA is the basis for 3G UMTS.

B-CDMA:
Broadband CDMA. Now known as W-CDMA. used in UMTS.

Composite CDMA/TDMA:
Wireless technology that uses both CDMA and TDMA. For large-cell licensed band and small-cell unlicensed band applications. Uses CDMA between cells and TDMA within cells.

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CT-2:
A second generation digital cordless telephone standard. CT2 has 40 carriers x 1 duplex bearer per carrier = 40 voice channels.

CT-3:
A third generation digital cordless

telephone, which is very similar and a precursor to DECT.

DECT:
Digital European Cordless Telephone. Uses 12-timeslot TDMA. This started off as Ericsson's CT-3, but developed into ETSI's Digital European Cordless Standard. It is intended to be a far more flexible standard than the CT2 standard, it has more RF channels (10 RF carriers x 12 duplex bearers per carrier = 120 duplex voice channels). It also has a better multimedia performance since 32kbit/s bearers can be concatenated. Ericsson has developed a dual GSM/DECT handset.

CTS:
GSM Cordless Telephone System. In the home environment, GSM-CTS phones communicate with a CTS Home Base Station (HBS), which offers perfect indoor radio coverage. The CTS-HBS hooks up to the fixed network and offers the best of the fixed and mobile worlds: low cost and high quality from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), services and mobility from the GSM

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TACS: Total Access Communications System. Developed by Motorola. and is similar to AMPS. It was first used in the UK in 1985. In Japan it is called JTAC. It operates in the 900 MHz frequency range.

DCS-1800: Digital Cordless Standard. Now known as GSM 1800. GSM operated in the 1800 MHz range. It is a different frequency version of GSM, and (900 MHz) GSM phones cannot be used on DCS 1800 networks unless they are dual band.

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GSM:
Global System for Mobile Communications. The first European digital standard, developed to establish cellular compatibility throughout Europe. It's success has spread to all parts of the world. It operates at 900 MHz.

A1-Net:
Austrian Name for GSM 900 networks.

Bluetooth:
The technology enables short-range communication networks between consumer devices incorporating (including) a Bluetooth interface, it greatly improve the way consumers access data and services wirelessly without paying any one.

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Flash-OFDM:
Flash-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a new signal processing scheme that will support high data rates at very low packet and delay losses, also known as latencies, over a distributed all-IP wireless network. The low-latency will enable real-time mobile interactive and multimedia applications. It promises to deliver higher quality wireless service and better cost effectiveness than current wireless data technologies.

GERAN:
GERAN is a term used to describe a GSM and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) based 200 kHz Radio Access Network. The GERAN is based on GSM/EDGE Release 99, and covers all new features for GSM Release 2000 and subsequent releases, with full backward compatibility to previous releases.

GMSS:
Geostationary Mobile Satellite Standard, a satellite air interface standard developed from GSM.

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EDGE (Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution).

(Also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), or IMT Single Carrier (IMT-SC)) is a backwardcompatible digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates, as an extension on top of standard GSM. EDGE is considered a 3G radio technology and is part of ITU's 3G definition. EDGE was deployed on GSM networks beginning in 2003. It will allow GSM operators to use existing GSM radio bands to offer wireless multimedia IP-based services and applications at theoretical maximum speeds of 384 kbps with a bit-rate of 48 kbps per timeslot and up to 69.2 kbps per timeslot in good radio conditions.

UWC-136( Universal Wireless Communications- 136 ) Enhancements to the

TDMA (IS-136) cellular phone system that increase data rates ).

IDEN:
iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Network). Launched by Motorola in 1994,
this is a Private Mobile radio system from Motorola's Land Mobile Products Sector (LMPS) iDEN technology, currently available in the 800 MHz, 900 Mhz and 1.5 GHz bands. It utilizes a variety of advanced technologies, including state-of-the-art vocoders, M16QAM modulation and TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access). It allows Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) operators to maximize the dispatch capacity and provides the flexibility to add optional services such as fullduplex telephone interconnect, alphanumeric paging and data/fax communication services.

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PCS:
Personal Communications Service. The PCS frequency band is 1850 to 1990
MHz, which encompasses a wide range of new digital cellular standards like N-CDMA and GSM 1900. Single-band GSM 900 phones cannot be used on PCS networks. PCS networks operate throughout the North America.

PDC:
Personal Digital Cellular is a TDMA-based Japanese standard operating in the
800 and 1500 MHz bands.

SDMA:
Space Division Multiple Access, thought of as a component of Third
Generation Digital Cellular/UMTS.

TDMA:
Time Division Multiple Access. Will be discussed in detail in coming lectures

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UMTS: Universal Mobile Telephone Standard - the next generation of global cellular. WLL: Wireless Local Loop limited-number systems are usually found in remote areas where fixed-line usage is impossible. Most modern WLL systems use CDMA technology.

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