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    Essential 4G Guide: Learn 4G Wireless In One Day
    Essential 4G Guide: Learn 4G Wireless In One Day
    Essential 4G Guide: Learn 4G Wireless In One Day
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    Essential 4G Guide: Learn 4G Wireless In One Day

    By Majeed Ahmad

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    What is 4G? Why is everybody talking about LTE? Gain the knowledge and skills about fourth generation wireless (4G) technology landscape where Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks are reshaping the next stage in mobile network development while providing users with much faster data speeds than 3G networks. The complete, easy-to-understand guide features three parts—pre-4G wireless, 4G wireless, and post-4G wireless—to inform IT professionals and manager about the turbo-speed mobile Internet which will eventually handle billions of devices and myriad traffic types.

    Do you work in a non-technical role and want to understand the broad wireless-related technical concepts? Whether you are in sales, marketing, business development, or any other non-technical area, this book will teach you what you need to know to understand the basics and have conversations about the wireless technologies being used in your business. Essential 4G Guide serves as a study tool for the mobile industry professionals who don’t have wireless engineering background, but they have to deal with basic technology concepts during their day-to-day work.

    The book allows managers and non-technical professionals to grasp mobile industry-related concepts and terminology more quickly and efficiently compared to reading a 400-page book or dozens of articles published in trade media. With a focus on core technology concepts and terms related 4G-based LTE networks, the Essential 4G Guide prepares readers to deal with the arrival of super-fast 4G mobile networks. A detailed treatment of LTE Advanced technology features is another prominent highlight of the book.

    The LTE-based 4G landscape can be a confusing beast, especially given of its roots in the GSM world, data-only network architecture, multiple technology versions, and its rapidly evolving nature. So, to provide a holistic view of the 4G technology landscape, both pre-4G and post-4G technologies have also been explained in granular details. That includes broad accounts of GSM, GPRS, CDMA, EDGE, 3G and 5G technologies.

    Find out:
    *Detailed accounts of the pre-4G mobile technologies like GSM, GPRS and 3G
    *How LTE became a technology of choice for 4G deployment
    *The major building blocks of data-centric LTE networks
    *What are key hurdles in the way of voice-over-LTE
    *The key features of the LTE Advanced standard
    *A profile of 5G and associated technologies like millimeter wave

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMajeed Ahmad
    Release dateDec 7, 2013
    ISBN9781311724373
    Essential 4G Guide: Learn 4G Wireless In One Day
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    Majeed Ahmad

    Majeed Ahmad is former Editor-in-Chief of EE Times Asia, a sister publication of EE Times. While being the Editor-in-Chief at Global Sources, a Hong Kong-based publishing house, he also spearheaded magazines relating to electronic components, consumer electronics, and computer, security and telecom products. This is his third book on smartphones. His first two book titles are Smartphone and Business Untethered.Majeed studied electronics and telecommunications at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has worked with blue-chip companies like AT&T, Motorola and Nortel before heading to the publishing industry. Majeed has been a technology and trade journalist for more than 17 years.

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    • 1/5
      This guide is only suited for a novice, with no RF experience.
    • 3/5
      Very good book to understand the history of LTE about how it became the preferred technology over CDMA/WiMax loyalist group like Sprint/Intel/Google/Verizon etc.

      Also gives an overview of upcoming developments for LTE-A and 5G.

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    Essential 4G Guide - Majeed Ahmad

    PRE-4G WIRELESS

    CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY

    The basic elements of the cellular concept have to do with frequency reuse and cell splitting. Frequency reuse refers to the use of radio channels on the same frequency to cover different areas—referred to as cells—separated by a significant distance. A frequency band could be reused in nearby, though not adjacent cells, thereby multiplying the number of channels available in the overall service area. As the demand rises, cells can be subdivided or split into smaller areas with even more base stations, thus further increasing the number of reusable frequencies in a given area. Cell splitting is the process of dividing a cell into smaller cells when the mobile traffic of that cell requires additional frequencies to handle more calls.

    There are two key functions required in a cellular network: handoff and roaming. As callers move within the service area, their calls are switched from one cell to another through a complex and sophisticated procedure. These handoffs are accomplished in a nearly instantaneous manner while users remain unaware that their phones have changed frequencies and have moved to another base station. Roaming is a mobility feature that allows a handset user to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive data, or access other services, when travelling outside the geographical coverage area of the home network, by means of using a visited network.

    A cellular network comprises of radio base stations and a central switching system. Mobile phones access radio base stations that have antennas mounted on towers and high-rise buildings. Radio base stations are linked to a central switching system through back-haul links made up of coaxial cable, optical fiber or microwave transmission systems. A computerized control system monitors and directs the entire network, identifying handsets within a service area and making connections as demanded.

    A cellular network is distributed over land areas called cells; each cell is served by a fixed-location system referred to as a cell site or a radio base station. Mobile devices communicate with each other or with wired devices like landline telephone or Internet-enabled PC via these radio base stations, which in turn, are connected to a central switching system.

    Image credit: ITU

    FIRST GENERATION (1G) WIRELESS

    In 1978, AT&T and Illinois Bell jointly conducted a beta trial of an Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)-based cellular network. Ten cells operating in the newly allocated 800 MHz band covered 21,000 square miles to encompass Chicago. Same year, a two-cell system started operating in Bahrain. The new cellular system divided the frequency band into channels using frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) technique; each user utilized a fraction of the available bandwidth to transmit and receive voice signals.

    In October 1981, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the allocation of radio frequencies in the 800-MHz band for cellular telephony services and began issuing licenses. AT&T and its subsidiary Illinois Bell launched the first commercial cellular system in Chicago in October 1983. A Motorola-designed cellular system opened in Washington D.C. and Baltimore a little later. Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X handset was the first commercial cellular phone launched in 1983. It weighed nearly two pounds and cost US$3,995. But that did not hold back the DynaTAC phone. The adoption of mobile phones had kick-started in the United States.

    Japan and Western Europe alike were pursuing new mobile phone systems that emulated the fundamentals based on the U.S. AMPS technology. In Japan, NTT was able to install an 88-cell system in Tokyo in December 1979. The Cellular Automobile Telephone System was practically the world’s first commercial cellular network. In Scandinavia, the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system kicked off as a commercial service in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway by the end of year 1981. But the first NMT-based cellular network was cut into operation in Saudi Arabia in September 1981, just a couple of months before the installation of the first Swedish cellular network. Later, in 1985, Total Access Communication System (TACS) was introduced in Britain, while the Germans developed German Analog Cellular System (C-NETZ) that was also adopted in Portugal and South Africa. Italy had RTMI/RTMS and France came up with Radiocom 2000.

    Like NMT, all of these systems were based on the underlying principles of AMPS, but used incompatible signaling schemes. Eventually, Europe’s cellular scene was plagued with nine incompatible cellular systems. Unlike Europe, there was a single analog cellular system in the United States and that turned AMPS into a stunning success. Apart from the United States and Canada, it was a de facto standard in Mexico, Central and South America as well as in many countries in the Pacific Rim, Africa and former Soviet Union. A single standard meant that availability of roaming services was possible throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America.

    Dave Meilhan, the first cellular telephony customer in the United States,

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