It's a small presentation on the journey from 1G to 5G (i.e. 5 generations) of wireless mobile networks.
Disclaimer: All the pictures and contents of the presentation has been collected from the publically available resources on the Internet.
3. The Breakthrough
Statistical Multiplexing - More Users in the same
channel
Use of Digital Signal Processing – Low Cost, Smaller
Devices
Secure Communication - Authentication and Ciphering
More than justVoice - Fax ,Data and Roaming Services
Supplementary Services – Caller Line Identification,Call
Forwarding, etc.
VAS Applications - Prepaid Calls, SMS, USSD, etc.
NyquistTheorem
6. Secret of Higher Data Rates (2/2)
GPRS/2.5G: MultipleTime Slots x
4 Coding Schemes (Max 114 Kbps)
EDGE/2.75G: MultipleTime Slots
x 2 Modulation Schemes x 4
Coding Schemes (Max 384 Kbps)
Link Adaptation
7. 4G – Unity is Strength
TDMA FDMA CDMA OFDMA
Fig. Frequency Response of OFDM Subcarriers
Fig. Two-D (Time-Frequency) Resource
Allocation in OFDM and OFDMA Frames
8. Weapons of 4G
ChannelCoding & Interleaving
Higher MCS (up to 64 QAM)
Faster LinkAdaptation
Hybrid ARQ with Soft Combining
MIMO
Beam Forming
QoS Scheduling
HSPA (3.5G): Hybrid ARQ + MIMO (Up
to 21 Mbps)
HSPA + (3.9G): Higher Order MIMO,
Dual Carrier and Improved Signaling (–
Up to 168 Mbps)
Beam Forming
MIMO
Antennae
9. The Brave NewWorld of 5G
Heterogeneous Network
Multi RAT and Cognitive Radio
Carrier Aggregation
Virtualization and SDN
Opportunistic Scheduling
Energy Harvesting
Internet ofThings
Editor's Notes
AMPS = Advanced Mobile Phone System
The Nyquist Theorem, also known as the sampling theorem, is a principle that engineers follow in the digitization of analog signals. For analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) to result in a faithful reproduction of the signal, slices, called samples, of the analog waveform must be taken frequently.
An analogy to the problem of multiple access is a room (channel) in which people wish to talk to each other simultaneously. To avoid confusion, people could take turns speaking (time division), speak at different pitches (frequency division), or speak in different languages (code division). CDMA is analogous to the last example where people speaking the same language can understand each other, but other languages are perceived as noise and rejected.
CDMA’s Near-Far problem was largely solved in 3G/WCDMA, due to improved processing capabilities of BS and Handset devices.
Channel Coding/ Forward error correction (FEC) is a method of obtaining error control in data transmission in which the source (transmitter) sends redundant data and the destination (receiver) recognizes only the portion of the data that contains no apparent errors. FEC codes can detect and correct a limited number of errors without retransmitting the data stream. Coding rate increases with the decrease in Radio Channel Quality.
Link adaptation is the ability to adapt the modulation scheme and the coding rate of the error correction according to the quality of the radio link. If the conditions of the radio link are good, a high-level efficient modulation scheme and a small amount of error correction is used.
OFDM is a frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) scheme used as a digital multi-carrier modulation method. A large number of closely spaced orthogonal sub-carrier signals are used to carry data[1] on several parallel data streams or channels.
OFDMA can be described as a combination of frequency domain and time domain multiple access, where the resources are partitioned in the time-frequency space, and slots are assigned along the OFDM symbol index as well as OFDM sub-carrier index.
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), which provide improved data rates using fast link adaptation and scheduling along with fast hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ).
Evolved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) provides further enhancement via multiple input, multiple output (2x2 MIMO) technologies, higher order modulation (64 QAM). And carrier aggregation (e.g. Dual Carrier HSPA).