EVOLUTION OF CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS

Generation 1G 2G 2.5G 3G 3.5G 4G

Applications Analog voice Digital voice (and Digital voice and Digital voice and data Data and Wireless internet
limited data; e.g. limited data ditigal voice
sms)

Rate 10 Kbps/user UL: 384 kbps/cell ~20 Mbps/cell UL: 100Mbps/cell

DL: 2Mbps/cell DL: 2Gbps/cell

Bandwidth 1.25 MHz 5 MHz

Systems AMPS IS-95 (CDMA) CDMA one CDMA2000 UMB

1993 (3GPP2)
NTT IMT Adv
GSM (TDMA) GPRS Æ EDGE WCDMA 3G LTE 2015+
TACS early 1990's (3GPP – UMTS) Super 3G
(~2012) 802.16m
IS-136 (TDMA)
N. American OFDMA 802.11n

PDC TD-SCDMA (TDD) OFDMA

GPRS: Generalized Packet Radio Service UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems
EDGE: Enhanced Data GSM Evolution UMB: Ultra Mobile Broadband
LTE: Long Term Evolution