DVD-Video Course V6: Understanding Wireless 1 Analog vs. digital · Cellular · CDMA and TDMA · GSM/GPRS · 3G · Wireless Web · Applications
Understanding Wireless 1 begins with basic radio concepts, understanding "analog radio" and "digital radio", then covers fundamentals of mobile communication networks: base stations, cells, handoffs and mobility.
With this in place, we go through the first and second generation technologies: AMPS, TDMA, GSM and CDMA, and understand how each works, their strengths and weaknesses and how they relate to each other.
In Part 3, we concentrate on data over cellular and 3G, and cover the differences between GPRS, Wideband CDMA or UMTS, cdma2000, 1X, 3X and 1XEV-DO. We review expected throughput in bits/second and which carriers are supporting which technologies. We conclude with applications such as i-mode, SMS, wireless email, web surfing, WAP and XML.
This video provides you with a real understanding of how a cellular network operates, the main technologies, the opposing camps championing different systems, and wireless applications.
1.03 Wireless
1.05 Analog Radio
1.07 Digital Radio: Keying
1.09 Limitations and Impairments
Part 2 Cellular
2.03 Mobile Communications
2.05 Cellular Standards
2.07 2G, 2.5G, 3G Migration
2.09 Cellular Principles
2.11 1G: Analog
2.13 2G: Digital
2.15 Digital Cellular: Voice
2.17 2G: TDMA (IS-136)
2.19 2G: GSM
2.21 GSM System Architecture
2.23 2G: CDMA (IS-95, cdmaOne)
2.25 CDMA: Coding
2.27 CDMA: Spread Spectrum
2.29 CDMA Particularities
2.31 CDMA System Architecture
Part 3 3G and Data over Cellular
3.03 Modems over 1G
3.05 CDPD: Packets over 1G
3.07 Data over 2G Cellular
3.09 Data over TDMA/GSM
3.11 GPRS: 2.5G
3.13 Data over CDMA
3.15 3G
3.17 IMT-MC: cdma2000
3.19 1X, 3X and 1xEV-DO
3.21 IMT-DS: Wideband CDMA
3.23 Throughput Comparisons
3.25 Service Providers
Part 4 Applications and Delivery
4.03 SMS and i-mode
4.05 Wireless E-mail
4.07 Device Evolution
4.09 Delivering Web Content
4.11 WAP
4.13 XML
Appendix A Additional Reference Material
A.03 Radio Bands of Interest
A.05 Location and 911
Appendix B References
B.03 Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix C Quiz
C.03 Knowledge Evaluation Exercise
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