Sneak peek at cellphone future

Author

Boyd, John

Volume

43

Issue

6

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

15

Abstract

NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan´s largest mobile phone company, has successfully transmitted 2.5 Gb/s of packet data in a downlink to a vehicle moving at 20 km/hr. DoCoMo owed its success to using bandwidth more efficiently and partly to bumping up two key technologies: multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Despite the success, DoCoMo realizes that they still have to face many difficult challenges in the development phase and in commercializing the system. In addition to the sheer size of the equipment being used to carry out the recent tests, 4G systems need a new infrastructure to support it. Nevertheless, 4G has the potential to provide a rich multimedia experience, including realistic videoconferencing, interactive online gaming, and high definition video.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; MIMO systems; cellular radio; data communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; voice communication; 4G wireless transmission; DoCoMo; MIMO; QAM; all-packet service; cellular phones; integrated voice-data transmission; multiple-input multiple-output; quadrature amplitude modulation; Bandwidth; Cellular phones; Commercialization; Downlink; MIMO; Mobile handsets; Quadrature amplitude modulation; System testing; Teleconferencing; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSPEC.2006.1638037

Filename

1638037