GSM, cdmaOne and 3G Systems

  • Authors:
  • Raymond Steele;Peter Gould;Chin-Chun Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • GSM, cdmaOne and 3G Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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From the Book:...Providing a detailed description and analysis of the global second generation (2G)mobile radio systems: the Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) andcdmaOne, this volume examines how these two systems will evolve into the thirdgeneration (3G) with their requirement to support multimedia mobile radiocommunications.The principle objectives of this book are to present to the reader detailed descriptionsof the basic GSM and cdmaOne systems, mainly from the radio interface point ofview; as well as accompanying analyses.GSM was deployed before cdmaOne and is the market leader, entrenched in manyparts of the world. Its success is due to numerous factors: its advanced backbonenetwork, the introduction of subscriber identity modules (SIMs) that decoupledhandsets from subscribers, its good security system, the low cost equipment due toopen (i.e. public) interfaces, the relentless programme of evolution that has yieldedsubstantial gains in spectral efficiency compared with the basic GSM system, and soon.cdmaOne started as a radio interface. It was a bold step to use CDMA at a time whenfew thought CDMA could work in a cellular environment. But it did so, acquiring thenecessary backbone network, and became a global standard offering toughcompetition to GSM. It is also worthy of note that Europe, which had designed andpromoted GSM, has opted for wideband CDMA for its third generation (3G)networks.The first chapter is designed to provide background material on TDMA, CDMA andcellular radio networks. Chapter 2 describes the basic GSM system and Chapter 3provides an analysis of the performance of GSM networks. The same method ofsystem description followed by a chapter dedicated to mathematical analysis isapplied for cdmaOne in Chapters 4 and 5, respectively. The final chapter endeavoursto describe how GSM is evolving to provide higher bit rate circuit-switched channelsand packet transmissions that will have an ability to provide a range of multimediaservices. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is thendescribed, followed by a discussion of the evolution of cdmaOne to cdma2000. BothUMTS and cdma2000 are 3G systems....