Tuesday 16 August 2011
Converged Mobile Offload Architectures
Monday 15 August 2011
LTE Spectrum Strategies and Forecasts to 2016
Sunday 14 August 2011
mHealth – Mobile Healthcare; consumer, doctors, healthcare providers, hardware and software tech enablers
Saturday 13 August 2011
4G Refarming Scenarios - Picture
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Self-Evolving Networks (SEN): Next step of SON
Monday 8 August 2011
Radio-over-Fiber (RoF): The existing alternative to Femtocells
Radio over Fiber (RoF) refers to a technology whereby light is modulated by a radio signal and transmitted over an optical fiber link to facilitate wireless access. Although radio transmission over fiber is used for multiple purposes, such as in cable television (CATV) networks and in satellite base stations, the term RoF is usually applied when this is done for wireless access.
In RoF systems, wireless signals are transported in optical form between a central station and a set of base stations before being radiated through the air. Each base station is adapted to communicate over a radio link with at least one user's mobile station located within the radio range of said base station.
RoF transmission systems are usually classified into two main categories (RF-over-Fiber ; IF-over-Fiber) depending on the frequency range of the radio signal to be transported.
a) In RF-over-Fiber architecture, a data-carrying RF (Radio Frequency) signal with a high frequency (usually greater than 10 GHz) is imposed on a lightwave signal before being transported over the optical link. Therefore, wireless signals are optically distributed to base stations directly at high frequencies and converted to from optical to electrical domain at the base stations before being amplified and radiated by an antenna. As a result, no frequency up/down conversion is required at the various base station, thereby resulting in simple and rather cost-effective implementation is enabled at the base stations.
b) In IF-over-Fiber architecture, an IF (Intermediate Frequency) radio signal with a lower frequency (less than 10 GHz) is used for modulating light before being transported over the optical link. Therefore, wireless signals are transported at intermediate frequency over the optical.
Access to dead zones
An important application of RoF is its use to provide wireless coverage in the area where wireless backhaul link is not possible. These zones can be areas inside a structure such as a tunnel, areas behind buildings, Mountainous places or secluded areas such a jungle.
FTTA (Fiber to the Antenna)
By using an optical connection directly to the antenna, the equipment vendor can gain several advantages like low line losses, immunity to lightening strikes/electric discharges and reduced complexity of base station by attaching light weight Optical-to-Electrical (O/E) converter directly to antenna.
Saturday 6 August 2011
Weekend Humour: On Standards and Patents
Friday 5 August 2011
TED talk: Wireless data from every light bulb
Thursday 4 August 2011
Detailed presentation on Femtocell Security from Black Hat 2011
Wednesday 3 August 2011
A look at "Idle state Signalling Reduction" (ISR)
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Cellphone radiation and Cancer
Saturday 30 July 2011
Wi-Fi in Public Transport over LTE
Thursday 28 July 2011
Human Activity Recognition for Personalised services
Interesting article from the NTT Docomo Technical journal.
How many radios are there in my phone?
Wednesday 27 July 2011
MRO: Handover failures signalling
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Outline of GCF Certification Process
Monday 25 July 2011
Femto Hacking in UMTS and LTE
One of the differences you may notice is that the signalling from Femto to the Core Network over S1 is encrypted and Integrity Protected. In case of the LTE Femto, there are multiple keys and only the required key (Kenb) is provided to the Femto. See the key hierarchy below:
Sunday 24 July 2011
Benefits of Self Optimizing Networks in LTE
Friday 22 July 2011
Mobility Robustness Optimization to avoid Handover failures
Thursday 21 July 2011
Smart Deployment with Smart Antennas and ORI
Wednesday 20 July 2011
NSN Celebrating 20 years of GSM
20 Years of GSM: Past, Present & Future
Technology Deployment and Adoption Trends
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Dual-Mode and Multi-Mode Femtocells
Monday 18 July 2011
Infographic on 'The Internet of Things'
A Survey on 3GPP Hetrogeneous Networks
Available for limited time to download free from here.
Sunday 17 July 2011
Network Mode of Operation (NMO)
Thursday 14 July 2011
HSPA evolution – beyond 3GPP Release 10
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Couple of presentations on GNSS and LCS
The second presentation by Ignacio Fernández Hernández of the European Commission, gives an overview of the EU satnav programmes (Galileo, EGNOS) and current R&D status; Present some numbers and findings of the overall GNSS R&D panorama in EU and abroad; Present some trends and challenges in location technologies for the following years. Another interesting presentation I think.
Saturday 9 July 2011
Mobile Telephony in Rural India
Nitin Dahad has a special report on similar topic in India Inc. You can read the article here.