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This book presents the state of the art in the field of mobile and wireless networks, and anticipates the arrival of new standards and architectures. It focuses on wireless networks, starting with small personal area networks and progressing onto the very large cells of wireless regional area networks, via local area networks dominated by WiFi technology, and finally metropolitan networks. After a description of the existing 2G and 3G standards, with LTE being the latest release, LTE-A is addressed, which is the first 4G release, and a first indication of 5G is provided as seen through the standardizing bodies. 4G technology is described in detail along with the different LTE extensions related to the massive arrival of femtocells, the increase to a 1 Gbps capacity, and relay techniques. 5G is also discussed in order to show what can be expected in the near future.
The Internet of Things is explained in a specific chapter due to its omnipresence in the literature, ad hoc and mesh networks form another important chapter as they have made a comeback after a long period of near hibernation, and the final chapter discusses a particularly recent topic: Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) servers.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Preface
Acronyms
1 Introduction to Mobile and Networks
1.1. Mobile and wireless generation networks
1.2. IEEE technologies
1.3. Conclusion
1.4. Bibliography
2 Mobile Networks
2.1. Cellular network
2.2. Principles of cellular network functionalities
2.3. 1G networks
2.4. 2G networks
2.5. 3G networks
2.6. 4G networks
2.7. 5G networks
2.8. Bibliography
3 Long-Term Evolution
3.1. Relevant features of LTE
3.2. Network architecture and protocols
3.3. Control and user planes
3.4. Multimedia broadcast and multicast service
3.5. Stream Control Transmission Protocol
3.6. Network discovery and selection
3.7. Radio resource management
3.8. Authentication and authorization
3.9. Fundamentals of the MAC layer in LTE
3.10. Fundamentals of the LTE physical layer
3.11. Conclusion
3.12. Bibliography
4 Long-Term Evolution Advanced
4.1. HetNet in LTE Advanced
4.2. Small cell concepts
4.3. Femtocell and macrocell integration architecture
4.4. Picocell and macrocell integration architecture
4.5. Interference mitigation in heterogeneous networks
4.6. Interference mitigation in the context of two-tier macropicocells
4.7. Coordinated multi-point transmission/reception
4.8. Carrier aggregation
4.9. LTE Advanced evolution toward 5G
4.10. Bibliography
5 5G
5.1. From LTE Advanced to 5G: the big transition
5.2. Some characteristics envisioned for 5G
5.3. 5G frequencies
5.4. High and low platforms
5.5. Cloud-RAN
5.6. Bibliography
6 Small Cells
6.1. Femtocell technology
6.2. LTE femtocell architecture
6.3. LTE femtocell deployment scenarios
6.4. Femtocell access control strategy
6.5. LTE femtocell challenges and technical issues
6.6. Security and privacy challenges
6.7. Synchronization
6.8. Mobility
6.9. Passpoint
6.10. The backhaul network
6.11. Software radio and cognitive radio
6.12. Custom cells
6.13. Conclusion
6.14. Bibliography
7 WPAN and WiGig
7.1. Wireless Personal Area Network
7.2. IEEE 802.15
7.3. Bluetooth
7.4. UWB
7.5. WiGig
7.6. WirelesssHD
7.7. Conclusion
7.8. Bibliography
8 WLAN and WiFi
8.1. IEEE 802.11
8.2. WiFi architecture
8.3. Security and authentication
8.4. Saving energy
8.5. IEEE 802.11a, b and g
8.6. Conclusion
8.7. Bibliography
9 WMAN and WiMAX
9.1. Background on IEEE 802.16e
9.2. The physical layer
9.3. An example of WiMAX and WiFi integration
9.4. Mechanisms of channel access
9.5. IEEE 802.16m or mesh for WiMAX
9.6. IEEE 802.16h or cognitive radio for WiMAX
9.7. Bibliography
10 WRAN and Interconnection
10.1. IEEE 802.22
10.2. Interconnection between IEEE standards
10.3. Bibliography
11 Internet of Things
11.1. Sensor networks
11.2. RFID
11.3. Near-field communication
11.4. The Internet of Things in the home
11.5. Fog networking
11.6. Connection of things
11.7. Conclusion
11.8. Bibliography
12 Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks
12.1. Ad hoc networks
12.2. Routing
12.3. Ad hoc routing protocols
12.4. Proactive protocols
12.5. Quality of Service in ad hoc networks
12.6. Models for QoS in MANET
12.7. Mesh networks
12.8. VANET networks
12.9. Green PI: wearable Device2Device networks
12.10. Bibligraphy
13 Mobile-Edge Computing
13.1. Network virtualization
13.2. Network virtualization technology
13.3. Using network virtualization
13.4. Mobile-edge computing
13.5. Conclusion
13.6. Bibliography
Conclusion
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Begin Reading
List of Tables
3 Long-Term Evolution
Table 3.1.
LTE characteristics
Table 3.2.
Functional decomposition of the EPS
Table 3.3.
LTE reference points
Table 3.4.
Modulation and coding schemes for LTE (3GPP Release 10)
4 Long-Term Evolution Advanced
Table 4.1.
LTE and LTE-A capacity comparison
Table 4.2.
Major characteristics of different cells in HetNets
7 WPAN and WiGig
Table 7.1.
WiGig channels
Table 7.2.
Data rates reached by WiGig
9 WMAN and WiMAX
Table 9.1.
IEEE 802.11e access category and user priority mapping
11 Internet of Things
Table 11.1.
RFID transmission frequencies
List of Illustrations
2 Mobile Networks
Figure 2.1.
2G and 3G technologies
Figure 2.2.
The different access methods
Figure 2.3.
An OFDM spectrum for a single subchannel (left), and five carriers (right)
Figure 2.4.
Cell design
3 Long-Term Evolution
Figure 3.1.
LTE architecture. SESN – Serving GPRS support Node
Figure 3.2.
E-UTRAN architecture. MME – mobility management entity; SGW – Serving gateway
Figure 3.3.
LTE protocol layers
Figure 3.4.
Functional split between E-UTRAN and EPC
Figure 3.5.
User plane end-to-end protocol stack
Figure 3.6.
GTP stack
Figure 3.7.
GTP tunneling
Figure 3.8.
Control plane end-to-end protocol stack
Figure 3.9.
LTE trusted model
Figure 3.10.
Generic frame structure in the LTE/E-UTRA downlink
Figure 3.11.
Location of a reference symbol within a resource block
4 Long-Term Evolution Advanced
Figure 4.1.
Heterogeneous wireless network architecture
Figure 4.2.
Femtocell and macrocell integration architecture
Figure 4.3.
Cell range expansion
Figure 4.4.
Assignment of carrier frequencies
Figure 4.5.
Illustration of coordinated multi-point transmission
Figure 4.6.
Contiguous versus non-contiguous carrier aggregation
5 5G
Figure 5.1.
Tentative 3GPP timeline for 5G
Figure 5.2.
D2D LTE communication for vehicular networks
Figure 5.3.
Access network discovery and selection (ANDSF)
Figure 5.4.
Future vision of 5G
Figure 5.5.
Attenuation versus frequency
Figure 5.6.
The fully-centralized Cloud-RAN architecture
Figure 5.7.
The partially-distributed Cloud-RAN architecture
6 Small Cells
Figure 6.1.
Basic femtocell network
Figure 6.2.
LTE femtocell logical architecture
Figure 6.3.
LTE femtocell deployment scenario 1: with a dedicated HeNB gateway
Figure 6.4.
LTE femtocell deployment scenario 2: without a HeNB gateway
Figure 6.5.
LTE femtocell deployment scenario 3: HeNB gateway for contro plane
Figure 6.6.
Threat model for femtocell networks
Figure 6.7.
A backhaul network
Figure 6.8.
Software radio and cognitive radio
Figure 6.9.
A cell on demand
7 WPAN and WiGig
Figure 7.1.
Bluetooth terminal connection diagram
Figure 7.2.
Cutting slots
Figure 7.3.
Transmission on several slots
Figure 7.4.
Platform WiMedia Alliance
Figure 7.5.
Allocation of frequencies for MB-OFDM
Figure 7.6.
Part of the spectrum can be used by the UWB
8 WLAN and WiFi
Figure 8.1.
IEEE 802.11 mode of operation
Figure 8.2.
Frame transmission process
Figure 8.3.
The WEP encryption process
Figure 8.4.
Operation of the shared key authentication mechanism
Figure 8.5.
Security levels in the 802.1x architecture
Figure 8.6.
Operation of the 802.11i protocol for passes
Figure 8.7.
Negotiating security policy
Figure 8.8.
Structure of a wireless frame
Figure 8.9.
The MAC zone
Figure 8.10.
MIMO technique with increased quality
Figure 8.11.
MIMO technique with increased capacity
Figure 8.12.
The 5 Ghz band
Figure 8.13.
SDMA
Figure 8.14.
Range comparison of the different WiFi solutions
Figure 8.15.
The 900 MHz bands
9 WMAN and WiMAX
Figure 9.1.
A simple mobile WiMAX OFDMA frame structure for the TDD mode
Figure 9.2.
Mapping OFDMA slots to subchannels and symbols in IEEE
Figure 9.3.
WiFi/WiMAX interworking architecture
Figure 9.4.
Topology of an IEEE 802.16 mesh network
10 WRAN and Interconnection
Figure 10.1.
IEEE 802.21 framework
11 Internet of Things
Figure 11.1.
The Internet of Things
Figure 11.2.
Passive RFID
Figure 11.3.
Active RFID
Figure 11.4.
Structure of the electronic product code Gen1
Figure 11.5.
Structure of the electronic product code Gen2
Figure 11.6.
The key to the mobile environment
Figure 11.7.
A BAN (body area network)
Figure 11.8.
Architecture of the Fog networking
Figure 11.9.
Fog networking
Figure 11.10.
The LoRa architecture
Figure 11.11.
LoRa network
Figure 11.12.
The three classes of LoRa
Figure 11.13.
The ISM band
Figure 11.14.
The Lora solution
12 Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks
Figure 12.1.
An ad hoc network
Figure 12.2.
Hidden node (1) and exposed node (2) problems
Figure 12.3.
Example of a Bluetooth scatternet
Figure 12.4.
Examples of PR-network
Figure 12.5.
Route discovery flooding
Figure 12.6.
Route discovery flooding
Figure 12.7.
A VANET network
Figure 12.8.
a) Communication in one cell and b) in different cells
Figure 12.9.
Scheduling at the access point
Figure 12.10.
Horizontal versus vertical communications
Figure 12.11.
Monitoring interface with open data
13 Mobile-Edge Computing
Figure 13.1.
A virtual router
Figure 13.2.
Network virtualization
Figure 13.3.
Hypervisor and virtual machines
Figure 13.4.
Virtualization with the Xen hypervisor
Figure 13.5.
OpenFlow signaling
Figure 13.6.
Open Flow meters
Figure 13.7.
Centralized Open Flow controller model
Figure 13.8.
Network equipment virtualization
Figure 13.9.
Example of active device location tracking
Figure 13.10.
Example of augmented reality content delivery
Figure 13.11.
Example of video analytics
Figure 13.12.
Example of RAN-aware content optimization
Figure 13.13.
Example of distributed content and DNS caching
Figure 13.14.
Example of application-aware performance optimization
Figure 13.15.
Different MEC server placements
Figure 13.16.
MEC server architecture and management
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Advanced Networks Set
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Volume 2
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Khaldoun Al Agha
Guy Pujolle
Tara Ali-Yahiya
First published 2016 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Preface
The world of mobile and wireless networks is only 10 years old, but is still expanding and evolving. Instead of settling in to a steady state, the changes are accelerating. The upcoming 3 to 5 years will expand on the current developments under 5G. This book aims to present the state-of-the-art in the field of mobile and wireless networks, and to anticipate the arrival of new standards and architectures.
After a description of the existing standards, mainly 2G, 3G and LTE, this book addresses LTE-A, which is the first 4G release, and provides a first indication of 5G as seen through the normalizing bodies.
4G technology is described in detail with the different LTE extensions related to the arrival of femtocells, the increase to 1 Gbps capacity, and relay techniques. 5G is also discussed to show what can be expected in the near future, and more precisely. A chapter is devoted to “small cells” that allow offloading techniques for discharging large antennas, and enable heterogeneous networks through integration with the normal macrocell.
Subsequently, the book focuses on wireless networks, starting with small personal area networks and progressing to very large wireless regional area networks, via local area networks dominated by WiFi technology, and finally metropolitan networks. Current personal area networks are described through Bluetooth and new types of wireless networks such as WiGig. The WiFi family continues to expand and all new members are described.
The Internet of Things is explained in a specific chapter due to its omnipresence in the literature. The forecast anticipates 100 billion connected devices by 2020. But standardized architectures and protocols are limited, which makes this field a very dense area with numerous proprietary networks. This book provides a simplified vision that ultimately makes the Internet of Things easy to understand.
Ad hoc and mesh networks are important as they have made a comeback after a long period of near hibernation. New and significant progress has been made in the field of algorithms that allows such networks to run smoothly while providing high quality service.
The last chapter discusses mobile edge computing (MEC) servers. These servers, placed close to users at the edge of the network, provide a cloud, signifying decentralization towards data centers which are much smaller than the leading cloud providers. These servers should be used to support all the associated algorithms for accessing networks, user data management, virtual machine storage and secure communication access. MEC is becoming more and more important with the massive scale of Internet traffic. Concentration of data and computing in a global cloud is becoming impractical; the world of connectivity is moving towards distributed data centers and MEC servers.
This book describes the development of wireless and mobile networks and how they will evolve in the future. The book is not exhaustive, because the field is vast and still expanding, but we hope it will be useful to the reader who wants to understand wireless networks, major innovations in the field, and current by manufacturer, operator and cloud provider actions.
Khaldoun AL AGHAGuy PUJOLLETara ALI-YAHIYAJune 2016
Acronyms
1G
first generation
2G
second generation
3G
third generation
3GPP
third-generation partnership project
4G
fourth generation
5G
fifth generation
AAA
authorization, authentication and accounting
ACK
acknowledgment
ACS
access categories
ACS
adaptive channel selection
ACS
auto configuration server
AMC
adaptive modulation and code
AMPS
advanced mobile phone system
AP
access point
ARQ
automatic retransmission request
ARU
average revenue per user
ASN
access service network
BE
best effort
BS
base stations
CA
capital expenditure
CBR
constant bit rate
CDMA
code division multiple access
CF
cyclic prefix
CI
connection identifier
CMC
connection mobility control
CN
core network
CQI
channel quality information
CQICH
channel quality indicator channel
CSG
closed subscriber group
CS
circuit switched
CSMA
carrier sense multiple access
CSN
connectivity service network
D2D
device- to-device
DCF
distributed coordination function
DCS
dynamic channel selection
DHCP
Dynamic Host Control Protocol
DL
downlink
DRA
dynamic resource allocation
DSAR
dynamic service addition request
EPC
evolved packet core
EDGE
enhanced data rates for global evolution
EPS
evolved packet system
ERT-VR
extended real-time variable rate
ETP
encapsulating tunnel payload
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
E-UTRAN
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
EX-PF
exponential proportional fair
FA
foreign agents
FAP
femto access point
FBSS
fast base station switching
FCH
frame control header
FDD
frequency division duplex
FDMA
frequency division multiple access
FEC
forward error correction
FMC
fixed mobile convergence
GBR
guaranteed bit rate
GERAN
GSM/Edge Radio Access Network
GSM
global system for mobile communications
GTP
GPRS Tunneling Protocol
HA
home agent
HCCA
HCF-controlled channel access
HPU
high-priority users
HRPD
high-rate packet data
HSCSD
high-speed circuit-switched data
HSS
home subscriber server
ICIC
intercell interference coordination
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IKE
Internet key exchange
IMS
IP multimedia subsystem
IMT
International Mobile Telecommunications
IP
Internet Protocol
IPSec
IP Security Protocol
ISI
intersymbol interference
LAN
local area networking
LB
load balancing
LDPC
low-density parity check
LPU
low priority users
LTE
long-term evolution
LTE/SAE
long-term evolution/system architecture evolution
MAC
medium access control
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
MEC
mobile edge computing
MBMS
Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service
MCS
modulation and coding scheme
MDH
macro diversity handover
MICS
Media Independent Command Service
MIES
Media Independent Events Service
MIFS
Media Independent Information Service
MIH
media-independent handover
MIMO
multiple input/multiple output
MLWDF
modified largest weighted delay first
MME
mobility management entity
MS
mobile stations
MTC
machine-type communication
MTSO
Mobile Telephone Switching Office
NAP
network access provider
NAS
non-access stratum
NGMN
next-generation mobile network
NMTS
Nordic Mobile Telephone System
nrtPS
non-real-time polling service
OAMP
operation administration maintenance and provisioning
OFDMA
orthogonal frequency-division multiple access
OPEX
operational expenditure
PAR
peak-to-average power ratio
PAN
Personal Area Network
PCEF
policy and charging enforcement function
PCI
physical cell identity
PCRF
policy and charging rules function
PDA
personal data assistants
PDU
Protocol Data Units
PHY
physical layer
PLMN
public land mobile network
PMP
point-to-multipoint
PRN
pseudo-random numerical
PS
packet scheduling
PS
packet switched
QoS
quality of service
RAN
Regional Area Network
RBC
radio bearer control
RNC
radio network controller
RRC
radio resource control
RRM
radio resource management
RSSI
received signal strength indicator
rtPS
real-time polling services
SAP
service access point
SC-FDMA
single-carrier frequency-division multiple access
SCTP
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SF
service flow
SG
serving gateway
SIM
subscriber identity module
SINR
signal-to-interference noise ratio
SMG
special mobile group
SOHO
small office home office
SPID
subscriber profile ID for RAT/frequency priority
SS
subscriber station
TACS
total access communications system
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TDD
time division duplexing
TDMA
time division multiple access
TS
traffic streams
TTI
transmission time interval
TXOP
traffic opportunity
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
UE
user equipment
UGS
unsolicited grant services
UL
uplink
UMB
ultra mobile broadband
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UMTS AKA
UMTS Authentication and Key Agreement
UPT
universal personal telecommunication
UTRA
universal terrestrial radio access
UTRAN
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
VLR
visitor location register
WAG
WIFI access gateway
WCDMA
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WiFi
wireless fidelity
WiMAX
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
1Introduction to Mobile and Networks
The development of mobile and wireless communications was traditionally viewed as a sequence of successive generations. The first generation of analog mobile telephony was followed by the second or digital generation. The third generation enables full multimedia data transmission as well as voice communications. The fourth generation is completely Internet Protocol (IP)-based, including voice communications, and increases the throughput in parallel to these activities related to the evolution of current fourth-generation (4G) wireless technologies. There is also increased research effort on future radio access, referred to as fifth-generation (5G) radio access. Such future radio access is anticipated to take the performance and service provisioning of wireless systems a step further, providing data rates of up to 200 Mbps with wide-area coverage and up to 1 Gbps with local-area coverage. 5G technologies are being focused on as it is expected to eventually deliver approximately 10 Gbps. This can be considered as a normal evolution in response to increased user behavior, demand and quality of service (QoS) expectations.
In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of mobile and wireless networks (MWN). The objective is to present the background and context necessary for understanding subsequent chapters. We review the history of MWN, enumerate their applications and compare them in order to see the effect of such technology not only on the market drivers but also on research domain areas.
1.1. Mobile and wireless generation networks
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) launched International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT-2000) as an initiative to cover high-speed, broadband and IP-based mobile systems featuring network-to-network interconnection, feature/service transparency, global roaming and seamless services independent of location. IMT-2000 aims to bring high-quality mobile multimedia telecommunications to a worldwide mass market by increasing the speed and ease of wireless communications, responding to problems due to increased demand to pass data via telecommunications, and providing “anytime, anywhere” services.
Two partnership organizations were born out from the ITU–IMT-2000 initiative: the Third Generation Partnership Project (www.3gpp.org) and the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (www.3gpp2.org). The 3GPP and 3GPP2 developed their own version of 2G, 3G and later mobile systems. In parallel, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was developing proper versions of the wireless networks that can be compared functionally with those of 3GPP and 3GPPP2 and their technology-based generations can be crossed with those of 3GPP and 3GPP2. Their terminologies are different but the goal is the same, which is to develop new technologies that make use of advances in the area of wireless and mobile technologies. This is why, we will summarize all the generations developed by these organizations as a path of evolution in the world of mobile and wireless networking.
1.1.1.First generation mobile technology: 1G
First-generation cellular networks (1G) were analog-based and limited to voice services and capabilities. Compared to today’s technology, 1G technology was vastly inferior. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, various 1G cellular mobile communication systems were introduced; the first such system, the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) was introduced in the United States in the late 1970s. Other 1G systems include the Nordic Mobile Telephone System (NMTs) and the Total Access Communications System (TACS). While these systems offer reasonably good voice quality, they provide limited spectral efficiency. The evolution toward 2G was thus necessary to overcome the drawback of such technology.
1.1.2.Second generation mobile technology: 2G
The second-generation (2G) digital systems promised higher capacity and better voice quality than their analog counterparts. The two widely deployed 2G cellular systems are Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) that was originally known as American Interim Standard 95, or IS-95 and is now called cdmaOne. Both the GSM and CDMA camps formed separate 3G partnership projects (3GPP and 3GPP2, respectively) to develop IMT-2000-compliant standards based on the CDMA technology. GSM differs from 1G by using digital cellular technology, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) transmission methods and slow-frequency hopping for voice communication. In the United States, 2G cellular standardization process utilized direct-sequence CDMA with phase-shift keyed modulation and coding.
There was an evolution of main air interface-related enhancements to GSM: (1) higher data-rates for circuit-switched services through aggregation of several time-slots per TDMA frame with high-speed circuit-switched data (HSCSD); (2) general packet radio service (GPRS), which had efficient non-real-time packet-data traffic support. GPRS reached peak data rates of up to 140 Kbps when a user aggregated all timeslots; and (3) enhanced data rates for global evolution (EDGE) increased data rates up to 384 Kbps with high-level modulation and coding within the existing carrier bandwidth of 200 kHz.
1.1.3.Third generation mobile technology: 3G
Further evolution of the GSM-based systems is handled under 3GPP to define a global 3G Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The main component of this system is the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) based on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) radio technology, since it uses 5 MHz bandwidth and GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) based on (GSM) enhanced data rates.
3GPP2 implemented CDMA2000 in the 1.25 MHz bandwidth, which increased voice and data services and supported a multitude of enhanced broadband data applications, such as broadband Internet access and multimedia downloads. This technology also doubled user capacity over cdmaOne, and with the advent of 1xRTT, packet data was available for the first time.
The 3GPP2 first introduced high-rate packet data (HRPD), termed CDMA20001xEV-DO. This standard enables high-speed, packet-switched techniques designed for high-speed data transmissions, enabling peak data rates beyond 2 Mbps. 1xEV-DO expanded the types of services and applications available to end users, enabling carriers to broadcast more media-rich content.
The 3GPP enhanced the WCDMA system, providing high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) that brought spectral efficiency for higher speed data services in 2001. Then, High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) was introduced in 2005. The combination of HSDPA and HSUPA is called HSPA. The latest HSPA is HSPA+, which resulted from adding multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) antenna capability and 16QAM (Uplink)/64QAM (Downlink) modulation. Coupled with improvements in the radio access network for continuous packet connectivity, HSPA+ allows uplink speeds of 11 Mbps and downlink speeds of 42 Mbps.
As the successor of CDMA2000, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Release 0 provides peak speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps with an average user throughput of between 400 and 700 Kbps. The average uplink data rate is between 60 and 80 Kbps. Rel. 0 makes use of existing Internet protocols, enabling it to support IP-based connectivity and software applications. In addition, Release 0 allows users to expand their mobile experience by enjoying broadband Internet access, music and video downloads, gaming and television broadcasts.
1xEV-DO Release 0 has been revised to produce Revision A (Rev-A), which increases peak rates on reverse and forward links to support a wide-variety of symmetric, delay-sensitive, real-time, and concurrent voice and broadband data applications. It also incorporates orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) technology to enable multicasting (one-to-many) for multimedia content delivery. As the successor of Rev-A, 1xEV-DO Revision B (Rev-B) introduces dynamic bandwidth allocation to provide higher performance by aggregating multiple 1.25 MHz Rev-A channels.
1.1.4.Fourth generation mobile technology: 4G
Fourth-generation or 4G technologies allow wireless carriers to take advantage of greater download and upload speeds to increase the amount and types of content made available through mobile devices. 4G networks are using full IP solutions that deliver voice, data and multimedia content to mobile users anytime and almost anywhere. They offer greatly improved data rates over previous generations of wireless technology. Faster wireless broadband connections enable wireless carriers to support higher-level data services, including business applications, streamed audio and video, video messaging, video telephony, mobile TV and gaming.
As a step toward 4G mobile broadband wireless, 3GPP began its initial investigation of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard as a viable technology in 2004. LTE offers a number of distinct advantages over other wireless technologies including increased performance attributes, such as:
– high spectral efficiency;
– very low latency;
– it supports variable bandwidths;
– simple protocol architecture;
– compatibility and interworking with earlier 3GPP releases;
– interworking with other systems, e.g. cdma2000;
– Frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) within a single radio access technology;
– efficient multicast/broadcast.
Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB), for the cdma2000 cellular telecommunications system, is run under the auspices of 3GPP2. The UMB cellular telecommunications system offers many new features and techniques that enable it to fulfill high expectations, and compete with other new and emerging technologies:
– data rates of over 275 Mbps in the downlink (base station to mobile) and over 75 Mbps in the uplink (mobile to base station);
– uses an OFDM / OFDMA air interface;
– uses FDD;
– possesses an IP network architecture;
– has a scalable bandwidth between 1.25 and 20 MHz (OFDM/OFDMA systems are well suited for wide and scalable bandwidths);
– supports flat, mixed and distributed network architectures.
Despite this, UMB technology was abandoned in favor of 3GPP 4G.
1.1.5.Fifth generation mobile technology: 5G
Studies carried out by industry players and academic into the actual use of the Internet by users led to the development of 5G. Efforts converged to fix a general view about this technology including very high data rates everywhere with low latency of end-to-end communication due to ultra-reliability and availability. Such technology is promising up to 10 Gbps and can even reach 100 Mbps in situations of indoor communication in urban or suburban areas.
The definition of the technology can be represented by the evolution of LTE Advanced itself, but some evolution in terms of utilization of spectrum, higher frequency bands and advanced multiantenna transmission techniques, and different kinds of communications can be included in this technology such as device-to-device communication with flexible spectrum usage.
1.2. IEEE technologies
LTE is not the only solution for delivering broadband mobile services. Several proprietary solutions, particularly for fixed applications, are already on the market. There are standards-based alternative solutions that at least partially overlap with LTE, particularly for portable and mobile applications. In the near term, the most significant of these alternatives are 3G cellular systems and IEEE 802.11-based WiFi systems. In this section, we compare and contrast the various standards-based broadband wireless technologies and highlight the differentiating aspects of LTE.
1.2.1.IEEE 802.15: WPAN
Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) or short-distance wireless networks focus on communication and interoperability among of devices operating under the WPAN. One of the first technologies based on this standard was Bluetooth, which is based on IEEE 802.15.1. However, this standard evolved to include low power consumption with a higher data rate such as Zigbee technology or standard IEEE 802.15.3 targeting a higher data rate intended for point-to-point close-proximity communication including kiosk downloading and intradevice communication just like wireless data centers and wireless backhauling. Accordingly, some forums were founded within the IEEE working group itself in order to provide a higher speed ultra-wideband (UWB) for applications, which involved imaging and multimedia. As a result of all these standards and technologies based on these standards, WiMedia Alliance was created to be responsible for the adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of UWB technologies.
1.2.2.IEEE 802.11: WLAN
The Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)-based-system is used to provide broadband wireless. It is based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards and is primarily a local area networking (LAN) technology designed to provide in-building broadband coverage. Current WiFi systems based on IEEE 802.11a/g support a peak physical-layer data rate of 54 Mbps and typically provide indoor and outdoor coverage over a few 1000 m2, making them suitable for enterprise networks and public hot spot scenarios such as airports and hotels.
WiFi offers remarkably higher peak data rates than 3G systems, primarily since it operates over a larger 20 MHz bandwidth. The inefficient Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) protocol used by WiFi, along with the interference constraints of operating in the license-exempt band, is likely to significantly reduce the capacity of outdoor WiFi systems. Further, WiFi systems are not designed to support high-speed mobility.
A major benefit of WiFi over World Wide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and 3G is the wide availability of terminal devices. A vast majority of laptops have a built-in WiFi interface. WiFi interfaces are now also being built into a variety of devices, including Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), cordless phones, cellular phones, cameras and media players. This will enable an easy use of broadband network services using WiFi. As with 3G, the capabilities of WiFi are being enhanced to support even higher data rates and to provide better QoS support. In particular, using multiple-antenna spatial multiplexing technology, the IEEE 802.11n standard supports a peak layer-2 throughput of at least 100 Mbps. It is expected that MIMO antennas will use multiple antennas to coherently resolve more information than possible using a single antenna.
1.2.3.IEEE 802.16: WMAN
WiMAX IEEE 802.16 standard for the global deployment of broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks is available in two versions: fixed and mobile. Fixed WiMAX, which is based on IEEE 802.16-2004, is ideally suited for delivering wireless, last-mile access for fixed broadband services. It is similar to digital subscriber line or cable modem services. Mobile WiMAX, which is based on the IEEE 802.16e standard, supports both fixed and mobile applications while offering users improved performance, capacity and mobility.
Mobile WiMAX provides higher data rates with OFDMA support and introduces several key features necessary for delivering mobility at vehicular speeds with QoS comparable to broadband access alternatives. Several features that are used to enhance data throughput are: Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC), Hybrid Automatic Repeated Request (HARQ), fast scheduling and bandwidth efficient handover. Mobile WiMAX is currently TDD operating at 2.5 GHz. Mobile WiMAX has higher tolerance to multipath and self-interference and provides orthogonal uplink multiple access with frequency selective scheduling and fractional frequency reuse.
1.2.4.IEEE 802.21: MIHS
Media Independent Handover Service (MIHS) (standard IEEE 802.21) specified interhandover management through different technologies regardless of type or family of standardization (3GPP or IEEE). It provides a cross-layer solution that triggers the handover at the most appropriate time when moving from one network to another. The aim is to ensure continuity of service when a user is changing its home network to another network which is using different technology. The ultimate goal is to ensure the QoS of an ongoing communication anytime and anywhere. The standard has defined many services and primitives that allow communication that propagates multilayer information from a physical layer to a higher layer so the higher layer is aware of what is going on in the lower layer, is thus handover occurs at the best time.
1.2.5.IEEE 802.22: WRAN
This group is mainly working on “enabling broadband wireless access using cognitive radio technology and spectrum sharing in white spaces”. Its work focuses mainly on regional networks and this is why the standard is called Wireless Regional Area Networks as they use a cognitive method to detect the white space in TV broadcast bands and reuse them again without causing any interference to the licensed users in the same band. The standard specifies operation in bands that allow spectrum sharing where the communication devices may opportunistically operate in the spectrum of the primary service such as 1,300–1,750 MHz, 2,700–3,700 MHz and the VHF/UHF TV broadcast bands between 54 and 862 MHz.
1.3. Conclusion
The move from analog to digital has paved the way for new generations of WAN. All technologies, regardless of standardization family, IEEE or 3GPP or 3GPP2, are trying to fully IP-orient networks, and this is the reason behind the fast evolution that we are witnessing.
Progress and the fast evolution of wireless networks is due to the evolution of users’ demands and expectations, as well as the evolution of the nature of traffic that the Internet is experiencing through different kinds of applications. Such traffic is very greedy in terms of data rate and has strict requirements in terms of QoS parameters. Such progress could not occur if there were no advanced modulation technologies in the physical layer making it possible to have such diversity in current wireless technologies.
Finally, industrial and academic research communities, even though they have had different concepts and points of view of how technology can be implemented and deployed, have been a principal factor in network development.
1.4. Bibliography
1.4.1.Standards
3GPP2 TSG C.S0084-001-0 V2.0, Physical Layer for Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) Air Interface Specification.
IEEE, STANDARD 802.16E-2005. PART 16 – Air interface for fixed and mobile broadband wireless access systems–Amendment for physical and medium access control layers for combined fixed and mobile operation in licensed band, December 2005.
1.4.2.Selected bibliography
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[AND 03] ANDERSON H.R., Fixed Broadband Wireless System Design, Wiley, 2003.
[AND 07] ANDREWS J.-G., GHOSH A., MUHAMMED R., Fundamentals of WiMAX, Prentice Hall, 2007.
[CLA 00] CLARK M.P., Wireless Access Networks: Fixed Wireless Access and WLL Networks-Design and Operation, Wiley, 2000.
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[ERI 15] ERICSSON, 5G Radio Acess, White Paper, Uen 284-23-3204 Rev B, February 2015.
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1.4.3.Websites
http://www.3gpp.org/technologies/keywords-acronyms/98-lte
http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG3c.html
www.ieee802.org/11/
www.ieee802.org/21/
www.ieee802.org/22/
www.wi-fi.org/
www.wimedia.org/
2Mobile Networks
The standardization of GSM-based systems has its roots in the 1980s, when the “Group Special Mobile” was created within the Conference Européenne des Postes et Télécommunications, whose task was to develop a unique digital radio communication system for Europe, at 900 MHz. The system has experienced extensive modifications to fulfill the increasing operator and cellular user demands. The main GSM system development between 1990 and 2000 was conducted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Special Mobile Group and its technical subcommittees, as well T1P1, which was responsible for the PCS1900 MHz specifications in the United States.
Further evolution of the GSM-based systems was handled under the 3GPP, a joint effort of several standardization organizations around the world to define a global 3G Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) cellular system. The main components of this system are UTRAN, based on wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) radio technology, and GSM/EDGE radio access network (GERAN), based on GSM/EDGE radio technology.
Figure 2.1. 2G and 3G technologies
2.1. Cellular network
Mobile radio communication introduces some challenges related to radio resources. There are several problems related to the following elements:
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signal strength
: the signal strength between the base station and the cell phone must be sufficiently high to maintain the communication. There are several factors that may influence the signal level (distance from the base station, interfering signals, etc.);
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fading
: the different effects of signal propagation can cause disruptions and errors. It is important to consider these factors during the construction of a cellular network. To ensure quality communication and to avoid interference, cellular networks use signal power control techniques.
We want the power of the received signal to be sufficiently greater than the background noise. For example, when the cell phone moves away from the base station, the received signal is attenuated. Conversely, the effects resulting from the reflection, diffraction and dispersion can change the signal strength even if the cell phone is close to the base station. It is also important to reduce the power of the signal transmission from the cell to avoid interference with neighboring cells but also to protect health and save energy.
2.1.1.Radio interface
As radio resource is scarce, data multiplexing methods have been used to optimize its use. Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) is the multiple access method most frequently used. This technique is the oldest, and it differentiates users with a simple frequency differentiation. Each user has an associated predetermined frequency. The implementation of this technology is quite simple.
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is based on the distribution of resources over time. Each frequency is divided into time intervals. Each user sends or transmits in a range of concrete time whose periodicity is defined by the duration of the frame. In this case, to listen to N users, the receiver has to consider the time interval T associated with this user. Unlike FDMA, multiple users can transmit on the same frequency.
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is the dedicated 3G access method. It is based on code division. It spreads the spectrum by allocating a code to each communication. Each user is differentiated from other users with a code that was allocated early in his communication and which is orthogonal to other users’ related codes. In this case, to listen to user N, the receiver need only multiply the signal received by code N for the user.
Figure 2.2. The different access methods
However, the traffic in the downlink and uplink can be merged by time division duplex (TDD) or frequency division duplex (FDD) multiplexing.
Orthogonal Frequency Division or OFDM is another method of modulation that is used in the most recent technology just like WLAN based on IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, UWB, WiMAX, LTE and 4G, etc. It provides high spectral efficiency, resilience to radio frequency interference and lower multi-path distortion. It is important first to understand the frequency division multiplexing (FDM) that extends the principle of single carrier modulation through the use of multiple subcarriers in the same channel. The data rate divided between the various subcarriers will be sent in one channel but different subcarriers. If the set of the subcarriers is orthogonal to each other, we add the word orthogonal to the technology. The guardbands necessary to allow individual demodulation of subcarriers in a FDM system would no longer be necessary. The use of orthogonal subcarriers allows subcarriers’ spectra to overlap, improving spectral efficiency. As long as orthogonality is maintained, it is still possible to recover the individual subcarriers’ signals despite their overlapping spectrums.
Figure 2.3. An OFDM spectrum for a single subchannel (left), and five carriers (right)
2.1.2.Cell design
A cellular network is based on the use of low-power transmitters (≈ 100 W). The range of such a transmitter is limited to a geographical area divided into smaller areas called cells. Each cell has its own transceiver (antenna) under the control of a base station and each cell has a certain frequency range. To avoid interference, adjacent cells should not use the same frequencies, however two cells far enough away from each other can use the same frequencies. The cells are designed in hexagonal form to facilitate the decision to change a cell range. If the distance between all cell transmitters is the same, then it is easy to standardize the time when a mobile node should change cell. In practice, the cells are not quite hexagonal because of the different topology and the propagation conditions, etc.
Another important choice in the construction of a cellular network is the minimum distance between two cells operating in the same frequency band to avoid interference. For this, the cell organization could follow different patterns. If the pattern contains N cells, each could use K/N frequencies where K is the number of frequencies allocated to the system. The advantage of frequency reuse is to increase the number of users in the system using the same frequency band. Where the whole frequency system is at maximum capacity, i.e. all frequencies are used, there are techniques that support new system users. The addition of new channels, frequency borrowing from neighboring cells and cell division are techniques that increase system capacity. The general principle is to have micro, picocells in high-density areas to allow a greater frequency reuse in a geographic area with a high population.
Figure 2.4. Cell design
2.1.3.Traffic engineering
Traffic engineering has been developed for the circuit switching based network design. In the context of cellular networks, it is essential to know how to plan the network to accept the maximum number of calls. One of the basic cellular network designs defines the degree of call blocking and also how to manage it. In other words, if a call is blocked, it will be put on hold and it will be necessary to define what the average waiting time is. Knowing the starting capacity of the system (number of channels), we can determine the probability of blocking and average waiting time for a blocked call. What complicates this traffic engineering in cellular networks is user mobility. In a cell, in addition to the novel calls there will be calls transferred by neighboring cells. Another parameter which further complicates the model is that the system should also combine or accept both phone calls and data traffic calls.
2.2. Principles of cellular network functionalities
A cellular network is generally composed of:
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a Base station (BS)
: which is the center of the cell; a BS includes an antenna, a controller and a number of transceivers. It allows communications over channels assigned to the cell. The controller is used to manage the appeal process between a mobile and the rest of the network. The BS is connected to Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO). Two types of channels are established between the cell phone and the BS: control channels and traffic channels. Control link the cell phone with the BS and exchange information necessary to establish and maintain connections. The traffic channels are used to transport traffic (voice, data, etc.).
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an MTSO
: manages several BSs generally associated with a wired network. It is responsible for establishing connections between mobile nodes. It is also connected to the wired telephone network and is thus able to establish connections between fixed and mobile nodes. The MTSO is responsible for the allocation of channels to each call; it is also responsible for handovers and billing information. The call process involves the following functions:
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initializing a mobile node
