Title :
Third generation personal communications
Abstract :
There are two system concepts for third generation mobile communications currently being developed and standardised in Europe. They are: the Third Generation Mobile System (TGMS), referred to as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) in Europe and Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System (FPLMTS) world-wide, and Mobile Broadband System (MBS). UMTS is intended to provide a wide range of mobile Services with up to 2 Mb/s to the user. MBS is aimed at providings range of broadband services with transmission capabilities of up to 155 Mb/s. This paper describes the main requirements and some of the technical aspects of the two systems. It also discusses two different approaches towards meeting the full requirements of UMTS (the author´s point of view).
Keywords :
access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; data communication; land mobile radio; multimedia communication; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; voice communication; wireless LAN; ATM; UMTS; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; air interfaces; asynchronous transfer mode; data communication; design; email; fixed wired infrastructures; high data rate radio LAN; high transmission rate wireless links; medium access control layer; multimedia mobile radio standards; multimedia traffic; networking standard; physical layer; spectrum; voice communication; wireless LAN applications; wireless connectivity; wireless standards; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication standards; Communication system traffic; Data communication; Land mobile radio; Multimedia communication; Speech communication; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Communications - the Wireless Revolution, IEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
London, UK
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19951437
