3G Wireless Networks in

Higher Education

Venkatarama Reddy C S
Librarian
Govt. College for Boys
Chintamani
 3G
 A telecommunication hardware standards and general
Technology for mobile networking
 It is based on the International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) family of standards
 It conceived from Universal Mobile Telecommunication
Service (UMTS) concept for high speed networks for
enabling variety of data intensive applications
 It consists of two main standards – CDMA 2000 & w-
CDMA
 3G network operators offer wide range of advanced
service to its users
 This can be achieved by Spectral efficiency
 Services – wide-area wireless voice Telephone, video
calls, and broadband wireless, data all in a mobile
environment
History
 First pre-commercial 3G network was
launched by Japan in May 2001
 First post-commercial launch by Japan in
Oct 2001
 The second network is SK Telecom of South
Korea in Jan 2002
 First commercial 3G network of US is Monet
Mobile Network on CDMA 2000
 Second network id Verizon Wireless in Oct
2003 on CDMA 2000
 Features

1. Enhanced multimedia (voice, data, video, and

remote control)
2. Usability on all popular modes (cellular telephone,
e-mail, paging, fax, videoconferencing, and Web
browsing)
 Broad bandwidth and high speed (upwards of 2
Mbps)
 Routing flexibility (repeater, satellite, LAN)
 Roaming capability
First Generation
 Analog systems
 Implemented in North America
 known as Analog Mobile Phone
Systems (AMPS)
 based on circuit-switched technology
and designed for voice, not data.
 Second Generation
 based on low-band digital data
signaling
 Mostly based on Circuit Switched
technology
 These are digital and expand the
range of applications to more
advanced voice services.
 not suitable for web browsing and
multimedia applications
 Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM)
 first implemented in 1991 by Finland
 It is a combination of Frequency Division
Multiple Access (FDMA) and Time
Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
 It operates in the 900MHz and 1.8 GHz
bands throughout the world (except
America)
 In America it operates in 1.9 GHz band
Enhanced Data for Global Evolution
(EDGE)

 Also , called as Enhanced Data rates

for GSM Evolution
 a radio based high-speed mobile data
standards
 enables services like multimedia
emailing, Web infotainment and video
conferencing
General Packet Radio Service
(GPRS)
 enhancement for GSM core networks
that introduces packet data
transmission
 It uses radio spectrum
 It provides always connectivity and
greater bandwidth
 worldwide roaming
Code Division Multiple Access
(CDMA)
 developed in North America
 It uses spread spectrum technology to
break up speech into small, digitized
segments and encodes them to identify
each call
 it providing clearer voice quality with less
background noise, fewer dropped calls,
enhanced security, greater reliability and
greater network capacity.
3G Wireless Networks
 It represents the convergence of various
2G wireless telecommunications systems
into a single global system
 first adopted in Japan and South Korea
 its ability is to unify existing cellular
standards such as CDMA, GSM, and TDMA
under one umbrella
 this results wideband CDMA, CDMA2000
and the Universal Wireless Communication
(UWC) interfaces
 3G Applications
 Interactive news delivery (voice, video, e-mail,
graphics)
 Voice /High-quality audio
 Still photography
 Video
 Data transmission services
 File transfer from intranet
 Multimedia e-mail (graphics, voice, video)
 Video conferencing
 Web browser
– On-line services
– Time schedules
– Global Positioning Services/Geographical
Information Systems
Benefits of 3G Wireless Networks in
Higher Education

 3G technology supports video

telephony
 Live video lectures can be cast to the
learner
 Two-way video conferencing becomes
possible
 Faster downloads of assignments
Conclusion
3G is for high speed networks for variety
of data intensive applications. 3G
provides more advanced services like
wide-area wireless voice Telephone, video
calls and broadband wireless data and
also it provides advanced multimedia
access and global roaming. 3G is giving
way to new generation wireless networks
i.e. 4G
3G Mobile Phones