UNESCO/CISM SECOND ADVANCED SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS
UNESCO PROJECT
Advanced Course on Networking
Introduction to Cellular Wireless Networks
Outline Introduction (Resource Management and
Utilization). Compression and Multiplexing (Other
related definitions). The Most Important Access Utilization
Schemes (Techniques):FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple
Access)TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access)CDMA (Coded Division Multiple
Access)
In which Systems the above Schemesare used?
IntroductionThe idea behind the Resource Management
in wireless communications was how to assign channels or frequencies to the radio cells in a way that the probability of interference is sufficiently low.
The utilization of the capacity of a transmission medium can be improved through different methods that involved transmitting several connections simultaneously in a multiplex mode (Multiple Access Techniques).
By using these techniques, the shared resource (spectrum) can be divided/shared among users, ensuring Quality of Service and the required amount of interference.
Frequency Spectrum
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Important Definitions:
Multiplexing and Compression? Carrier? Signal (Digital and Analog)? Bandwidth? Information? Transmission Medium? Frequency?
Definitions Multiplexing: is sending multiple signals or streams
of information on a carrier at the same time in the form of a single, complex signal and then recovering the separate signals at the receiving end.
Carrier: In information technology, a carrier signal is a transmitted electromagnetic pulse or wave at a steady base frequency of alternation on which information can be imposed by increasing signal strength, varying the base frequency, varying the wave phase. Carrier in telecommunication industry, a
telephone or other company that sells or rents a telecommunication transmission services.
Definitions Cont...
Compression means transmitting/storing the same amount of information using less amount of resources
Both Compression and Multiplexing are attempts to make better use of resources: the Communication Channel.
Multiplexing attempts to make better use of a potentially underused resources. On the Other hand, Compression attempts to make better use of a potentially overused resources.
Definitions Cont…
A signal: In electronics, is an electromagnetic field used to convey data from one place to another. In information technology is simply “That which is send or received”.
A signal can be analog or digital: Analog technology refers to electronic transmission
accomplished by adding signals of varying frequency or amplitude to carrier waves of a given frequency.
Digital: is a technology that generates, stores and process data in terms of two states: Positive and Non-positive ( 1 or 0 bits).
Definitions Cont…
Frequency: for a periodic function, is the number of cycles or events per unit time.
Bandwidth: (The width of a band of electromagnetic frequencies) is used to mean: (1) how fast data flows on a given transmission path.
(2) more technically, the width of the range of frequencies that an electronic signal
occupies on a given transmission medium. Information Transfer: is the process of
moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink.
Multiplexing Methods
FDM : Frequency Division Multiplexing FDMA: Frequency Division Multiple
Access TDM : Time Division Multiplexing
FDMA: Time Division Multiple Access CDM : Code Division Multiplexing
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
FDMA FDM divides the transmission frequency range
(Bandwidth) into narrower bands called (subchannels).
The subchannels are smaller frequency bands and each band is capable of carrying a separate voice or data signals. Problem?!
Guard bands are used to prevent interference on the receiving end of the signal (Accommodate the
delay of the near-far-problem) Disadvantage (FDMA): Full utilization of the
available frequency band is not possible!! Advantage: Multiple callers can share the frequency
spectrum and one user can have multiple frequencies Above problem is solved.
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FDMA-Applications FDMA is used in a variety of applications such as:
telephone systems, radio systems, cable TV at homes.
The first generation of Mobile networks. FD,TD-MA.
GSM (Global System of Mobile Telecommunication) uses FDMA in combination with TDMA.
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems-3G) in combination with other multiplexing techniques
TDMA Why TDM ?
FDM sometime offer less frequency for the communication channel than the required amount
On the Other hand, in TDM the entire bandwidth of the radio channel is used but is divided into time slots that are periodically allocated to each station for the duration of the call
Pros and Cons : It needs more synchronization between the sender and the
receiver It is more frequency-economic than FDM This engagement of the transmission medium can cause using
asynchronous time slots instead of the synchronous ones especially when the transmission pauses occurs
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FDMA + TDMA
A combination of FDMA/TDMA can be used. For example, in GSM systems. The traffic is burst onto the channel at a specific periods.
With this combination, more channels can be used with less interference.
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CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)
Like TDMA, in CDMA the analog speech is coded into digital signals.
Unlike TDMA, in CDMA each conversation is assigned a unique code (a signature for each individual transmission).
The codes of different users are assigned to be different from each other (e.g orthogonal to
each other). The final signal at the receiver contains only the
relevant conversation. Any other signals are picked up as a noise.
Spread Spectrum (SS) in CDMA The idea of the SS is to transform an
information data signal into a transmission signal with much larger bandwidth. This is achieved by encoding the information data signal by a code signal called pseudo random or pseudo noise (PN) which is independent from the data signal and has a much larger bandwidth.
Spread Spectrum Principle
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Spreading Sequence Assignment (SSA)
The codes are said to be orthogonal when their normalized inner product is equal to 0.
Code Ci is said to be orthogonal to code Cj if Ci does not belong to the path from the root of the tree to Cj or to the sub-tree below code Cj .
In W-CDMA spreading codes have variable length: 4 to 512 chips in the downlink and 4 to 256 chips in the uplink.
Code Tree
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C1,1 =(1)C1,1 =(1)
C2,1 =(1,1)C2,1 =(1,1)
C2,2 =(1,-1)C2,2 =(1,-1)
C4,1=(1,1,1,1)C4,1=(1,1,1,1)
C4,1=(1,1,-1,-1)C4,1=(1,1,-1,-1)
C4,1=(1,-1,1,-1)C4,1=(1,-1,1,-1)
C4,1=(1,-1,-1,1)C4,1=(1,-1,-1,1)
How to obtain the code? The first element in the tree is 1. For each element, there are two possible
sub-elements that we will term the top and bottom sub-element.
The top sub-element is generated by repeating the root of the sub-element twice. So that the top sub-element of 1 is (1,1).
The bottom sub-element can be constructed by concatenating the root of the sub-element with the inverse of itself. Thus, the bottom sub-element of 1 is (1,-1) and so on.
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CDMA
CDMA technique is used in UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems) (Called also W-CDMA)
CDMA provides better signal-to-noise ratio performance than the conventional TDMA and FDMA. Which means that the required high capacity can be approved!!
Advantage: It is easy to accommodate variable user capacity as long as the user does not increase the whole energy of the multi-user signal.
Disadvantage: The power control issue which limits the max. number of users in the cell.
There are different alternatives for CDMA in UMTS: W-CDMA TD-CDMA FD-CDMA
Multiple access in CDMA – An Example
Code assigned to each
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Same Code in Bi-polar
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Receiver decodes the transmission of C sender from the total signal
Receiver decodes the transmission of C sender from the total signal
Basic Access
Techniques!!
References?1) Mobile Radio Networks, Networking and Protocols,
Bernhard H. Walke. ISBN: 0-471-97595-8. WILEY.2) UMTS, Mobile Communications for future, Flavio
Muratore, ISBN: 0-471-498297. WILEY.3) Mobile and Wireless Networks, Uyless Black, Prentice Hall
Series in Advanced Communications Technologies.ISBN:0-13-440546-3.
4) Digital Communications, I. A. Glover, P. M. Grant, Prentice Hall. ISBN:0-13-565391-6.
5) Computer Networks, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, ISBN:0-13-394248-1.
6) CDMA, Principles of Spread Spectrum Communication, Andrew J. Viterbi. ISBN:0-201-63374-4.
7) Mobile IP, the internet Uplugged, James D. Solomon.ISBN:0-13-856246-6.
But still a very valuable But still a very valuable resource:resource:
Andrew Tanenbaum: Andrew Tanenbaum: Computer Networks, 4Computer Networks, 4thth Edition 2003, Prentice Edition 2003, Prentice
HallHall
But still a very valuable But still a very valuable resource:resource:
Andrew Tanenbaum: Andrew Tanenbaum: Computer Networks, 4Computer Networks, 4thth Edition 2003, Prentice Edition 2003, Prentice
HallHall
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