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UMTS
A GLOBAL MOBILE SYSTEM
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
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WHAT IS UMTS
BRIEF HISTORY OF UMTS
TYPES OF UMTS SYSTEM
SPECIAL FEATURES OF UMTS
TECHNOLOGY BEHIND UMTS
NETWORK STRUCTURE OF UMTS
SPECTRUM OF UMTS
ADVANTAGE OVER GSM AND CDMA
APPLICATION OF UMTS
UPGRADATION OF UMTS
FUTURE ASPECTS OF UMTS
WHAT IS UMTS?
UMTS is Universal Mobile Telecommunication
System.
 It is one of the THIRD GENERATION(3G) mobile
phone technology
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• It is standardized by 3GPP, and is the European answer
to the ITU IMT-2000 requirements for 3G cellular radio
systems
It is an evolution of GSM technology
 UMTS, the 3G successor to GSM which utilizes
the W-CDMA air interface and GSM
infrastructures .so it is also called 3GSM
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HISTORY OF UMTS
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1G networks (NMT, C-Nets, AMPS, TACS) are
considered to be the first analog cellular systems,
which started early 1980s.
2G networks (GSM, camion, DAMPS) are the first
digital cellular systems launched early 1990s.
2.5G networks (GPRS, cdma2000 1x) with data rates
up to about 144kbit/s.
3G networks (UMTS FDD and TDD, cdma2000 1x
EVDO, cdma2000 3x, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, IMT-2000
DECT) are the latest cellular networks that have data
rates 384kbit/s and more.
CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY
TYPES OF UMTS SYSTEM
There are two types of UMTS systems:
 Frequency division duplex (FDD) wideband code
division multiple access (FDD/WCDMA)
 And time division duplex (TDD) wideband code
division multiple access (TDD/WCDMA).
 FDD/WCDMA uses two frequencies, which allows
separate transmission and reception on two different
frequencies.
 TDD/WCDMA allows for duplex transmission on the
same frequency by assigning different time slots in a
single frame for transmission and reception.
SPECIAL FEATURES OF UMTS
FOR USERS:
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SPEED
ALWAYS ON CONNECTION
VALUE
AVAILABILITY
SUPPORTS BANDWIDTH INTENSIVE
APPLICATION
GLOBAL ROAMING
QUALITY OF SERVICE
SECURITY
FOR OPERATORS:
EASY TO IMPLEMENT
 SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE
 VOLUME
 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPENT
 QUALITY CONTROL
 FORWARD LOOKING DESIGN
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TECHNOLOGY
UMTS combines the W-CDMA, TD-CDMA, or TDSCDMA air interfaces, GSM Mobile Application
Part (MAP) core, and the GSM family of speech
codes.
 In the most popular cellular mobile telephone
variant of UMTS, W-CDMA is currently used
 UMTS over W-CDMA uses a pair of 5 MHz
channels. In contrast, the competing CDMA2000
system uses one or more arbitrary 1.25 MHz
channels for each direction of communication.
 Uses spread spectrum technology. it assigns
different codes to users as in CDMA.
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UMTS
CORE NETWORK
Packet
switch
domain
Description
The network consists of
 Radio interface UTRAN
 Circuit switch domain
 Packet switch domain
UTRAN: umts terrestrial radio access network
-Radio Network Controller (RNC),
- 3G Base stations (Node Bs)
- air interface (Tower) to the mobile equipment (ME)
NETWORK ELEMENTS
msc
Mobile switching center switch
Serves ME at its current location for circuit switch
service
gmsc
Gateway msc
Serves umts where it is connected to ext CS nw
mgw
Media gateway
Performs actual switching for user data
sgsn
Serving gprs support node
Serves ME for packet data
ggsn
Gateway serving gprs support node
Connects packet switch nw to internet
Node b 3g base station
Handles radio channel,multiplexing n demultilexing of
data n voice
rnc
Radio nw controller
UMTS SPECTRUM
BANDWIDTH IS 5MHZ.
 SPECTRUM SPECIFIED BY WARC-92 IS
1900MHZ FOR UPLINK AND 2100MHZ
FOR DOWNLINK
 Over 120 licenses have already been
awarded to operators worldwide (as of
December 2004), specifying W-CDMA
radio access technology that builds on
GSM
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ADVANTAGES OVER
GSM AND CDMA
SPEED
 HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY
 GLOBAL ROAMING
 GOOD NETWORK COVERAGE
 BETTER QUALITY OF SERVICE
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APPLICATIONS OF UMTS
VPN
 Java
 Bluetooth
 I-mode
 Multimedia
 M-commerce and e-commerce
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Upgradation of umts
UMTS networks have been or are in the
process of being upgraded with High
Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA),
HSUPA (high speed uplink packet access)
sometimes known as 3.5G which improves
the speed up to 14mbps.
 HSDPA enables downlink transfer speeds
of up to 10 Mbit/s.
 HSUPA improves the uplink speed up to
5.76Mbps.
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FUTURE ASPECT OF UMTS
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UMTS’ QoS mechanisms also can support Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the final stage of
the UMTS vision, where voice and data travel
over the same packet infrastructure. That design
reduces the need for, and cost of, a separate
infrastructure for circuit-switched voice
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3GPP Long Term Evolution project plans to
move UMTS to 4G speeds of 100 Mbit/s down
and 50 Mbit/s up, using a next generation air
interface technology based upon OFDM.
CRITICISM
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UMTS is criticized for its wide spectrum.
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Cost of license for its spectrum is very high
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Deployment of UMTS requires up gradation of
existing GSM networks which is very costly
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UMTS network requires base station at every
100 meters which is not possible in urban areas