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    Wireless Networks3

    CDMA, 3G and WiMAX

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    Introduction to WiMAX

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    Wireless Broadband

    Wireless technologies

    Proliferating in a major way into the first mile (computers) or the

    last mile subscriber access(communication)

    This technologies are generally called as Wireless LocalLoop(WLL) or Wireless in Local Loop(WiLL)

    Wireless Local Loop

    Known as fixed-wireless system

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    Background Today world is moving towards a convergence of voice, data

    and video

    IEEE 802 committee set up the 802.16 working group to

    develop wireless broadband or wireless MAN standards WirelessMAN

    Offers an alternative to high bandwidth wired access network like

    fiber optic, cable modems and DSL

    Popularly known as WiMAX(Worldwide Interoperability forMicrowave Access)

    Provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes

    from point-to-multipoint links to portable and fully mobile Internet access

    Provides around 10Mbps bandwidth without the need for cables

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    WiMAX Deployment Architecture

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    Release of 802.16 standards in April 2002 has paved way for

    the entry of broadband wireless access as a new bearer to

    link home and business with core telecommunication

    networks WirelessMAN

    Facilitates network access to buildings through exterior

    antennas communicating with radio base stations

    Provides less expensive access with more ubiquitous broadbandaccess

    Integrates data, voice and video services

    Fast network deployment, using a small number of base stations

    on buildings / poles

    Can grow as the demand increases

    At any point of time the number of active users are always a

    fraction of the number of subscribers

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    3 working groups of 802.16 standard

    IEEE 802.16.1Air interface for 1066 GHz

    IEEE 802.16.2Coexistence of broadband wireless access

    systems

    IEEE 802.16.3Air interface for licensed frequency 2 to11 GHz

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    802.16 standard - layered architecture

    Organized into 3 layered architecture

    Physical layer

    Specifies the frequency band

    Modulation scheme Error correction techniques

    Synchronization between transmitter and receiver

    Data rate and the multiplexing structure

    MAC layer Responsible for transmitting data in frames and controlling access to

    the shared wireless medium through MAC layer

    MAC protocol defines how and when a base station or subscriber

    station may initiate transmission on the channel

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    Convergence Layer

    Provides functions specific to the service being provided

    IEEE 802.16 bearer services include digital audio / video multicast,

    digital telephony, ATM, Internet access, wireless trunks in

    telephone networks and frame relay

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    CS SAP

    MAC SAP

    PHY SAP

    Frame Relay

    IPTelephone ATM Multimedia

    Outside WiMAX

    Standards

    Service-Specific Convergence Sublayer (CS)

    MAC Common Part Sublayer (MAC CPS)

    Physical Layer (PHY)

    MAC

    PHY

    Within

    WiMAX

    Standards

    WiMAX Protocol Stack

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    Physical Layer

    802.16 standards specifies 3 physical layers:

    WirelessMAN-SC2This uses single carrier modulation format

    Supports existing networks and protocols

    WirlessMAN-OFDMThis uses orthogonal frequency-divisionmultiplexing with a 256-point transform

    Access is by TDMA

    Air interface is mandatory for license-exempt bands

    WirelessMAN-OFDMAThis uses orthogonal frequency-division multiple access with a 2048-point transform

    Multiple access is provided by addressing a sub-set of the multiple carriers

    to individual receivers

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    802.16 Medium Access Control

    Designed for point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access

    It addresses the need for very high bit rates (both uplink to base

    station & downlinkfrom the base station)

    Supports variety of services like multimedia and voice Accommodates both continuous and bursty traffic

    Facilitates more demanding physical environment and different

    service requirements of the frequencies between 2 and 11GHz

    The 802.16 project is upgrading the MAC to provide automaticrepeat request (ARQ) and support for mesh

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    Broadband Applications

    Wireless broadband allows higher data rates in home,

    offices and even mobile environment

    Includes standard Ethernet LAN or WiFi indoor using

    802.16d and outdoor mobile using 802.16e Introduced

    IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Network

    Standards

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    Broadband Mobile Cellular System

    In mobile cellular system, the cellular network itself will be

    mobile

    Cellular system like 3G provides a high data rate

    WirelessMAN has also geared up to support high data rate

    High data rates are possible with low speed mobility

    High speed mobility is still in its infancy, specially designed

    for high-speed telematics application

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    MOBILE BROADBANDCOMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    WITH MOVING BTS

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    The above diagram depicts mobile communication system

    to support high-speed mobility, this is achieved by installing

    Moving base stations

    Fixed radio ports uniformly distributed along the median of theroadway

    The moving base stations allow communication links to be

    established between the mobile units traveling on the roadway

    and a fixed communication network through the fixed radio ports The small-cell (picocell) architecture of the proposed system

    enables the use of extremely lightweight low-power mobile units

    that can be used almost anywhere

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    The picocell here will move in the direction of the moving vehicle

    so that the relative speed between them is low

    This proposed infrastructure is suitable for high speed multilane

    highways in cities, facilitating communication to devices traveling

    at a speed up to 150kmph

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    MOVING TO 3G

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    Introduction

    The world of telecommunications is changing as it is

    influenced by

    Trends in media convergence

    Industry consolidation Perception of mobile phones has changed significantly over

    the last few years and more changes predicted in future

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    Changes predicted in future are:

    Mobile device will be used as integral part of our lives

    Data usage of 3G will become important and different from the

    traditional voice business

    The look of the phone will be as important as usage

    A great deal of convergence will take place between information

    and communication technology

    Mobile communications will be similar to its social positioning,

    people will have only a mobile device

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    To address these challenges and opportunities, the mobile

    telecommunication technology needs to adapt new

    techniques, facilities and services

    The 3G system will offer lot of telecommunication services

    like voice, multimedia, video and high speed data

    CDMA is the preferred approach for the 3G networks and

    systems cdma2000 standards are being driven by

    Telecommunication Industries Association (TIA)

    CDMA uses air interface, which is based on IS-95 andcdmaOne

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    Japan 3G standards users Wideband Code Division

    Multiple Access (WCDMA) (DoCoMo) version

    In Europe, Asia, Australia and many other parts f the world

    of 3G has been accepted as Universal MobileTelecommunications System(UMTS) and WCDMA

    UMTS / WCDMA is being driven by ETSI and is the

    normal evolution of GSM / GPRS

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    Goal of UMTS

    Provide more attractive and richer services to the user

    Universal Roamingany user will be able to move across the

    world and access the network

    Higher Bit Ratemore speed would open the path towardsmultimedia applications

    Mobile Fixed Convergencethere is a need to offer user cross-

    domain services

    Flexible Service Architectureby standardizing no the servicesthemselves, but the building blocks that make up the services

    l b l l

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    International Mobile Telecommunications- 2000

    (IMT- 2000)

    IMT- 2000

    Is the global standard for third generation (3G) wireless

    communication

    Defined by a set of interdependent ITU Recommendations Provides a framework for worldwide access of services by linking the

    diverse systems of terrestrial and / or satellite based networks

    through the synergy between digital mobile telecommunications

    technologies and systems for fixed and mobile wireless access systems It was originally envisioned to be launched in the year 2000 with a

    bandwidth of 2000K

    Popularly known as 3G - includes EDGE, CDMA 2000, UMTS,

    DECT and WiMAX standards

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    Evolution beyond IMT-2000 and towards 4G

    3GPP and 3GPP2 are researching on extensions of current

    3G standards

    Long Term Evolution (LTE)

    Ultra Mobile Broadband Technologies would be fully based on an all-IP network

    infrastructure

    They are moving towards IMT-Advanced (4G) standards

    These standards fall short of the speed requirements for 4G

    Standards here are classified as 3.9G or Pre-4G

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    CDMA - 2000

    cdma2000 is the third generation version of cdmaOne / IS-95 Uses Radio Transmission Technology (RTT)

    Is a spread spectrum, wideband radio interface

    Uses CDMA technology as the underlying modulation technology and

    IMT-2000

    Addresses the specification for indoor, indoor-to-outdoor,

    pedestrian and vehicular environment

    Can operate in a wide range if environments like

    Indoor / Outdoor picocell (35Km radius)

    Wireless in Local Loop(WLL)

    M l i i d Di S d i

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    Multicarrier and Direct Spread in

    cdma2000

    Supports chip rates of N x 1.2288Mcps (where N=1,3,6,9,12) N=1 spreading is similar to IS-95

    For N>1, if N=3 it is Multicarrier and Direct Spread (see figure)

    Case Multicarrier

    N>1

    The modulation symbols are demultiplexed on to N separate 1.25MHz

    carriers where N=3, 6, 9, 12

    Each of these carriers is then spread with 1.2288 M chips Case Direct Spread

    N>1

    Modulation symbols are spread on a single carrier with a chip rate of

    Nx1.2288 M chips where N=3,6,9,12

    M l i i d Di S d

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    Multicarrier and Direct Spread

    Spectrum in cdma2000

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    Services

    Two types of data services under consideration in

    cdma2000

    Packet data

    Used for asymetric, bursty traffic like Internet browsing / mails Circuit switched data

    Used for delay sensitive real time traffic

    Video applications are potential candidates

    Needs dedicated channel for the duration of the call

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    UMTS / WCDMA

    Standard body for ETSI for 3G is called UMTS and 3GPP

    Some of the CDMA encoding techniques are patented by

    Qualcomm

    To resolve copyright issuesget different flavors of CDMA ETSI in Europe

    ARIB in Japan

    Called as Wideband CDMA or WCDMA

    WCDMA

    Also known as UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) FDD

    (Frequency Division Duplex)

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    Fixed Wireless

    3G is commonly associated with mobile phones

    3G specification includes the fixed wireless

    Currently we use separate links for data and voice

    A fixed wireless will make it only one common link

    The IMT-2000 specification makes specific provision for 3G

    Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)

    FWA Is expected to become the mainstream technology in emerging

    economies across the globe

    In developed countries 3G residential wireless represents a new

    horizon for competitive access providers

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    1.5 Mbps2Mbps data to home

    In India

    Some operators are using CDMA 1X technology for WiLL

    Offers both mobile and fixed phones Fixed phone line are example of fixed wireless access

    Fixed wireless 3G is converged, multimedia-driven technology

    3G utilizes point-to-multipoint network architecture

    Transmit data and voice simultaneously at high speeds across core wirelessinfrastructure

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    Application of 3G

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    Background

    3G can work in multiple ways

    Can run in tunneling mode or in an application mode

    Tunneling mode

    Device works more as a pass through device or a modem

    Mobile phone is connected to another device like a laptop and

    functions as a wireless media interface

    Here the intelligence of the phone is not used but only the

    communication interface of the phone is used

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    Application mode

    Runs on phone

    A 3G mobile phone supports SMS, WAP, Java etc.

    A MExE classmark 3 mobile devicewill have an executionenvironment that will allow application development for the

    client device

    The application platform can be Java (JavaPhone, PersonalJava,

    J2ME, JVM) , C / C++ (Symbian, Brew, or PalmOS) or VisualBasic(Windows CE)

    Wireless Telephony Application Interface (WTAI) can also be

    used in a WAP environment to access the telephone reosurce

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    Types of client applications in 3G

    Local Applications Games, cartoon and similar applications

    May be downloaded over the air and used offline

    Occasionally Connected Computing Environment The user will connect to the network occasionally

    Downloading and uploading of emails are the best example here

    Online Applications

    Corporate applications like order booking, updating of inventory status

    Real-time Applications

    Could be real-time sock updates or applications for law-enforcement

    agents for real-time tracking or navigational systems

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    3G Specific Applications

    Personal Applications

    Content Applications

    Communication Applications

    Productivity Applications

    Business Applications

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    New and specific to 3G are

    Virtual Home Environment (VHE)

    Personal Communication Networks (PCN)

    Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM)

    Audio / Video

    Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP / Voice over Packet

    Network)

    Electronic Agents Downloading of Software and Content

    ENUMprotocol emerging from work of Internet

    Engineering TaskForces Telephone Number

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    CDMA

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    SPREAD SPECTRUM TECHNOLOGY

    Conventional transmission system

    Information modulated with a carrier signal

    Transmitted through a medium

    When transmitted, all the power of the signal is transmittedcentered around a particular frequency

    This frequency represents a specific channel and generally has a

    very narrow band

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    Narrow Band and Spread Spectrum

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    In spread-spectrum the transmission signal bandwidth is

    much higher than the information bandwidth

    There are numerous ways to cause a carrier to spread

    All spread-spectrum systems can be viewed as two stepsmodulation processes

    Firstdata to be transmitted is modulated

    Secondcarrier is modulated by the spreading code, causing it to

    spread out over a large bandwidth

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    Different spread spectrum techniques

    Direct Sequence (DS)

    Spread spectrum used to transmit digital information

    Mix digital information stream with a pseudo random code

    Frequency Hoping (FH) Center frequency of a conventional carrier is altered many times

    within a fixed time period in accordance with a pseudo-random

    lists of channels

    Chrip Called as chrip spread spectrum

    Employs a carrier that is swept over a range of frequencies

    Application in ranging and radar system

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    Time Hopping Works in a timehopped signal

    The carrier is on-off keyed by the pseudo-noise (PN) sequence

    resulting in a very low duty cycle

    The speed of keying determines the amount of signal spreading

    Hybrid System

    Combines the best points of two or more spread spectrum systems

    The performance of this system is usually better than can be obtainedwith a single spread-spectrum technique for the same cost

    The most common hybrids combine both frequency-hopping and

    direct-sequence techniques

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    Amateurs and business community

    Are currently authorized to use only two spreading techniques

    FH and DS techniques

    Rest of the Spread-Spectrum technologies are classified andused by military and space sciences

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    IS-95

    Telecommunications Industry Associations (TIA)

    developed the IS-95 standard

    Standard formed the basis for the first CDMA systems

    deployed in the cellular band in North America The IS-95 family of standards is known as cdmaOne

    It is a second generation digital mobile communication

    system

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    Speech and Channel Coding Audio basics

    The normal audio range of human being is between 20Hz to 20KHz

    This range is normally used for high fidelity CD quality music

    In case of telephonic communications where generally human voice is

    used, the frequency range of 3003300Hz is sufficient

    For digitization the speech it is sufficient to sample at 8000 samples

    per second (assuming a bandwidth of up to 4000 Hz)

    Thus for any telephonic quality speech, 12 bits are sufficient to encode

    each sample

    By logarithmic sampling 12 bits can be reduced to 8 bits per sample

    This results in the PCM encoding of the speech and digitization of

    the voice at 64Kbps

    This digitized voice is then passed through a coding scheme using

    Code-Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) algorithm

    Case of mobile telecommunication

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    Case of mobile telecommunication

    environment

    Signal strength varies with location and movement of themobile transmitter / receiver

    Signal strength influence error ratewhich affects the quality

    of communication

    Due to varying signal strengths, the mobile

    telecommunications system are susceptible to burst errors

    What is burst error?

    Grouping of errors in adjacent bits as compared to errors that aredispersed over the whole data block

    IS-95 addresses the problem of burst errors by utilizing and

    error correction scheme based on encoding and interleaving

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    IS-95 Architecture

    Similar to the network elements within a GSM network cdmaOne / IS-95 uses CDMA for its radio or last mile

    communication

    Varies only in the radio interface

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    Main elements of the reference model are: Mobile Station (MS)

    Base Station (BS)

    Mobile Switching Center (MSC)

    Home Location Register(HLR)

    Data Message Handler (DMH)

    Virtual Location Register (VLR)

    Authentication Center (AC)

    Equipment Identity Register (EIR) Operations Systems (OS)

    Interworking Function(IWF)

    External Networks

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    The IS-95 Architecture Model

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    Important Components

    Data Message Handler (DMH) Responsible for collating the billing data

    Equipment Identity Register (EIR)

    Provides information about the mobile device for record purposes

    The EIR may be located with the MSC or may be located independent

    of it

    Operating System (OS)

    Responsible for overall management of the wireless network Internetworking Functions (IWF)

    Enables the MSCE to communicate with other networks

    External Networks (PSTN)

    An ISDN, PLMN or PSPDN

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    IS-95 Channel Structure

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    About Channel Structure

    IS-95 system operates on the same frequency band as the first generationAMPS

    It uses FDD with 25MHz in each direction

    Uses 824849MHz for forward link

    In digital communication, one data path maps on to one communicationchannel

    In FDMA system one channel occupies a distinct frequency band

    In TDMA, it is a distinct timeslot within a frequency

    In CDMA, a channel is defined in terms of a code sequence and

    frequency

    This results in offering a higher channel capacity, which translates into an

    overall higher bandwidth

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    IS-95 uses

    Different modulation and spreading technique for forward and

    reverse link

    Forward link uses 64 Walsh codes to maps 64 logical

    channels

    The base station simultaneously transmits the user data for all

    mobiles in the cell by using different Walsh codes for each mobile

    This is spread using a PN (pseudonoise)of length 215 chips

    The user data is spread to a channel chip rate of 1.2288Mchips

    On the reverse link, channels are identified by long PN sequence

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    For forward channels Base stations transmit information in 4 logical channel formats

    Pilot channels

    Sync channels

    Paging channels (PCH) Traffic channels(Code)

    On the reverse link, all mobiles respond in an asynchronous fashion

    The user data is encoded, interleaved and then blocks of 6 bits are

    mapped to one of the 64 orthogonal Walsh functions Finally the data is spread by a user specific code of 42 bits

    The reverse channel is organized in access and traffic channels

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    Pilot Channel

    The pilot CDMA signal transmitted by a base station provides a

    reference to all mobile stations

    Assigned a Walsh code of p W0

    The pilot signal level for all base stations is kept at 46dB, so that

    the MS at the cell boundaries should be able to receive the pilot

    signal from other cells to decide when to perform handoff

    The pilot signals from all base stations use the same PN sequences,

    but each base station is identified by a unique tone offset

    These offsets are in increments of 64 chips to provide 512 unique

    offsets

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    Sync Channel

    Is assigned the Walsh function W32

    Is used with the pilot channel to acquire initial time

    synchronization

    W32 has a pattern of 32 consecutive 0s and 32s

    Parameters of Sync channel are

    System Identification (SID)

    Network Identification (NID)

    Pilot short PN sequence offset index

    Long-code state

    System time

    Offset of local time

    Daylight saving time indicator and Paging Channel data

    Paging Channel

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    Paging Channel

    Up to 7 paging channels which transmits control information to the

    terminals that do not have calls in progress

    The paging channels are assigned the Walsh functions W1 to W7 Message carried by paging channel include:

    System Parameter Messagelike base station identifier, the number of

    paging channels and channel number

    Neighbor List Messageinformation about neighbor base stationparameter, like the PN offset

    Access Parameter Messageparameters required by the mobile to

    transmit on an access channel

    Page Messageprovides a page to the mobile station

    Channel Assignment Messageto inform the mobile station to tune toa new carrier frequency

    Data Burst Messagedata message sent by the base station to the mobile

    Authentication Challengeallows the base station to validate the

    mobile identity

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    Role of Access Channel

    Used by a terminal without a call in progress

    Sends message to the base station for three principal purposes

    To originate a call

    To respond to a paging messages

    To register its location

    Each base station information operates with up to 32 access

    channels

    The messages carried by the access channel include:

    Order message, registration message, data burst message,

    originate message, authentication challenge response message

    IS-95 Forward and Reverse Link

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    S 95 o wa a eve se

    Channel Structures

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    IS-95 Call Processing

    To set up a call or to transmit data, a data path needs to be

    established through a traffic channel

    To establish a traffic channel, a mobile station in IS-95 goes

    through several states like: System initialization

    System idle state

    System access

    Traffic channel state

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    Phases in details

    In system initialization state the mobile acquires a pilot channel bysearching all the PN offset and selects the strongest pilot (W0) signal

    Once the pilot is acquires the sync channel is acquired using the W32

    Walsh function and the detected pilot channel

    Then the mobile obtains the system configuration and the timing

    information

    Then the mobile enter the system idle state where it monitors the

    paging channel

    If a call is being places or received the mobile enters the system access state

    where the necessary parameters are exchanged The mobile transmits its response on the access channel and the base

    station transmits its response on the paging channel

    When the access attempts is successful the mobile enter the traffic state

    In the traffic state voice or data is transcated

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    CDMA Registration

    The registration process is used by the mobile device to

    notify its location, status, identification and other

    characteristics

    Location information is required to page the mobile for anincoming mobile terminated call

    When the MS does power on or power off it goes through

    the registration process as well, and the registration

    information is stored in HLR

    These functions are similar to GSM

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    Handoff and Roaming

    A handover in GSM is called a handoff in IS-95

    When a subscriber moves away from a base station, the

    signal power reducesdrop in connection

    Ensuring call does not breaksome other base station closeto the mobile station needs to attach the mobile to it and let

    the call continue without interruption

    Handover in GSM is hard handover

    The attachment with the current cell is broken first and then a

    new connection is setup with another cell

    Thus in GSM it is break before make

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    Handoff in CDMA

    Spectrum is spread and everybody gets the same signal

    Logically a mobile station in CDMA is always connected to

    different base stations at the same time

    Handoff here is managed by changing the attachment Three types of handoffs

    Soft handoff

    Hard handoff

    Softer handoff

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    Soft and Softer Handoff

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    Soft Handoff

    Is an intercell handoff Control of a mobile station is assigned to an adjacent sector

    or an adjacent cell without dropping the original radio link

    The mobile keeps two radio links during the soft handoff process

    Once the new communication link is well established the

    original link is dropped

    This process is called as make before break thisguarantees no loss of voice during handoff

    In the above diagram as the user moves, a soft handoff takes

    place from cell B to cell A

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    Hard Handoff

    This is case of interfrequency handoffs

    CDMA to CDMA hard handoff is the process in which a

    mobile is directed to handoff to a different frequency

    assigned to an adjacent cell or a sector The mobile drops the original link before establishing the

    new link

    Similar to a GSM handover

    The voice is muted momentarily during this process

    This handoff is completely fast and cannot be noticed

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    Softer Handoff

    A mobile communicates with two sectors of the same cell

    A rake receiver at the base station combines the best

    version of the voice frame from the diversity antennas of

    the two sectors into a single traffic frame This is a logical handoff where signal from multiple sectors

    are combined instead of switching from one sector to

    another

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    IS -95 Channel Capacity

    The channel capacity of CDMA system depends on thefollowing criteria:

    Voice Activity Detection

    Sectorization for Capacity Frequency Reuse Considerations

    Note: The CDMA capacity is about four times that of TDMA and eight tomes

    that of FDMA

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    CDMA versus GSM

    GSM

    Relatively mature technology

    Huge installation base

    Experienced operators and equipment manufacturers Interoperability is well proven

    Complete, open and has proven standards

    Includes all the specifications from the handset other via the air,

    switch, interconnect it with switching and every aspect of mobiletelecommunication

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    IS-95

    Mainly single vendor(Qualcomm cdmaOne) specification

    Covers the air interface making it incomplete

    CDMA is generally believed to have high potential to addresssome the difficult challenges of the past quite efficiently

    (Check the table in next slide)

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    GSM versus 3G

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    CDMA DATA PROTOCOL STACK


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