ETSI WCDMA for UMTS

Author

Toskala, Antti ; Holma, Harri ; Muszynski, Peter

Author_Institution

Radio Access Syst., Nokia Telecommun., Finland

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

2-4 Sep 1998

Firstpage

616

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) wideband CDMA (WCDMA) concept selected by ETSI for the FDD component of UMTS terrestrial radio access (UTRA). The selection process was completed in January 1998 and the selection point started the actual technology refinement and specification work after the selection. The WCDMA concept selected for the UTRA FDD mode is based on direct sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) with 4.096 Mchips/s chip rate and is designed with both the flexibility to the third generation services and GSM compatibility in mind. This paper describes the main features of the UTRA FDD mode based on WCDMA technology

Keywords

broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; frequency division multiplexing; radio access networks; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication standards; DS-CDMA; ETSI WCDMA; European Telecommunications Standards Institute; FDD component; GSM compatibility; UMTS; UMTS terrestrial radio access; UTRA; direct sequence CDMA; third generation services; wideband CDMA; 3G mobile communication; Downlink; Frequency conversion; GSM; Multiaccess communication; Proposals; Quadrature phase shift keying; Telecommunication standards; Time division multiple access; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE 5th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sun City

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4281-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSSTA.1998.723859

Filename

723859