2G, 3G, 4G Wireless Tutorial

Recently I put a lot of effort into updating an earlier wireless tutorial.  Part of the resulting material was presented at the Communications Developer Conference in Los Angeles in September 2008.  Other versions have been used internally at NMS Communications.  Last week our marketing team recorded me presenting the tutorial and, today, the complete Wireless Tutorial:  2G, 3G, 4G and beyond became available as a slide deck and as three recorded segments of audio with slides (.wmv files).  Here's the abstract:

This comprehensive tutorial is designed to benefit both the technical and general telecom audience. Brough Turner reviews the history and evolution of mobile radio, evolving network architectures, services, applications, and business models; considers alternative 4G paths and the potential for convergence of GSM/LTE and WiMAX; and discusses the longer term impact of new WiFi standards on fixed and mobile wireless services. In this wireless tutorial, Brough also covers core network architectures and their evolution to all-IP, new wireless applications and application frameworks, spectrum licensing and more.

This work started as a 3G Tutorial that Marc Orange and I put together back in 2002.  Although the 3G Tutorial has not been updated since early 2003, it has remained one of the most frequently accessed pages on the NMS website.  So clearly there's interest.  Hopefully this new version will be even more useful as it covers the whole range from pre-mobile radio days to the latest 4G proposals.  Here's the outline:

• History and evolution of mobile radio

• Brief history of cellular wireless telephony
• Radio technology today: TDMA, CDMA, OFDMA
• Demographics and market trends today
• 3G, 3.5G, WiMAX, LTE and 4G migration paths

• Evolving network architectures

• GSM-MAP (EU) and IS-41 (US) origins
• Softswitches, VoIP and SIP in NextGen Networks (NGN)
• 3GPP and NGN convergence: releases, features and schedules

• Evolving services

• SMS, MMS, location, rich presence, video
• IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) vs. “dumb pipe”

• Applications and business models

• Killer applications & killer platforms
• 2-sided business models

• Related technology, Issues and Futures

• WiMAX, Backhaul, Bluetooth, NextGen WiFi
• Mobile device diversity / application environments

But there's still more needed...

There is much more I could add.  The current tutorial barely touches on mobile handsets, handset software and handset applications frameworks.  There's also a lot more to say about WiFi evolution, but I don't want to promise an update that could be significantly delayed.  After all, it did take me five years to get around to updating the original 3G Tutorial.   :-)

Comments

[maya saxena]

Iwould like to see tutorial o 2 G and 3G systems

[pierce rammopa]

I will like to read complete notes about wireless network evolution(2G-3G-4G)

[brough]

Maya and Pierce, There is a lot of material available as described here:
http://blogs.dialogic.com/2009/02/wireless-tutorial-slides-posted.html