THE LONG TERM EVOLUTION

WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?

 Objectives
 To get acquainted with evolution of generations in
Wireless Communication
 Introduction to the 4th Generation of mobile
communications, primarily LTE

 Scope
 General Introduction and basic acquaintance with
LTE
THE EVOLUTION
 The First Generation
 The Second Generation

 The Third Generation

 The Fourth Generation

THE FIRST GENERATION
THE FIRST GENERATION (CONTD..)
 Motorola was the first company to produce a
handheld mobile phone (April 3rd, 1973)
 Prototype had 30minutes talktime for 10h charge

 First 1G systems were introduced by NTT in

1979
 NMT provided services in Nordic countries
beginning 1981
 AMPS first introduced
 North America: 1983
 Israel: 1986
 Australia: 1987
THE SECOND GENERATION
THE SECOND GENERATION (CONTD…)
 D-AMPS (IS-54/IS-136)
 First commercial deployment in 1993
 Evolution of AMPS
 IS-136 added features to IS-54 (Messaging, CSD)
 Primarily used in North America
 End of Life Technology

 GSM
 Standard developed by ETSI
 First GSM call in July 1st 1991
 De facto Global Standard for mobile communications
THE THIRD GENERATION
THE THIRD GENERATION (CONTD…)
 UMTS
 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
 Developed by 3GPP
 Uses WCDMA
 384kbps data rate
 NTT DoCoMo first commercial 3G (1st October 2001)
 3GPP has been constantly evolving with new releases
 HSDPA (Release 5), HSUPA (Release 6), HSPA+
(Release 7)
 HSPA data rates upto 21Mbps, HSPA+ data rates
upto 42Mbps
THE THIRD GENERATION (CONTD…)
THE 4TH GENERATION