CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION

SUBMITTED TO:
Mr. AMIT KAUL
PRESENTED BY:

ABHISHEK
SINGH
11M231

CONTENTS

Why Cellular Mobile Telephone System?

Mobile Communication Principle
Basic Cellular System
Concept of Frequency Reuse Channels
Cell Splitting
Handoff
Digital Cellular Systems (2g)

WHY CELLULAR MOBILE TELEPHONE SYSTEM ?

One of many reasons for developing a cellular mobile
telephone system and deploying it in many cities is
the operational limitations of conventional mobile
telephone system:
1. Limited service capability
2. Poor service performance
3. Inefficient frequency spectrum utilization

Limited Service Capability

A conventional mobile telephone system is usually

designed by selecting one or more channels from a specific
frequency allocation for use in autonomous geographic
zones.
The communication coverage area of each zone is
normally planned to be as large as possible, which means
that the transmitted power should be high.
The user who starts a call in one zone has to reinitiate the
call when moving into a new zone, because the call will be
dropped. This is an undesirable radio telephone system
since there is no guarantee that a call can be completed
without a handoff capability.

Poor Service Performance

In the past, a total of 33 channels were allocated to 3 mobile
telephone systems
1. MTS system
2. (IMTS) MJ system
3. (IMTS) MK system
MTS operates around 40MHz & MJ operates at 150
MHz; both provides 11 channels. IMTS MK operates at 450
MHz and provides 12 channels. In 1976, New York city had
6 channels of MJ serving 320 customers, with another 2400
customers on a waiting list. Similarly 6 channels of MK
serving 225 customers, with another 1300 customers on a
waiting list.

Inefficient Frequency Spectrum Utilization

In a conventional mobile telephone system, the
frequency utilization measurement Mo is defined as
the maximum number of customers that could be
served by one channel at the busy hour.

For (IMTS) MJ system, Mo = 53 customers/channel

For (IMTS) MK system, Mo = 37 customers/channel

DEFINITION
A cellular mobile communications system uses a large number
of low-power wireless transmitters to create cells- the basic
geographic service area of a wireless communications system.
Variable power levels allow cells to be sized according to the
subscriber density and demand within a particular region.
As mobile users travel from cell to cell, their conversations are
"handed off" between cells in order to maintain seamless
service.
Channels (frequencies) used in one cell can be reused in
another cell some distance away. Cells can be added to
accommodate growth, creating new cells in unserved areas or
overlaying cells in existing areas

Mobile Communications Principles

Each mobile uses a separate, temporary radio channel
to talk to the cell site. The cell site talks to many
mobiles at once, using one channel per mobile.
Channels use a pair of frequencies for
communication: one frequency, the forward link, for
transmitting from the cell site, and one frequency, the
reverse link, for the cell site to receive calls from the
users.

BASIC CELLULAR SYSTEMS

Analog System: A basic analog cellular system consists
of three subsystems: a mobile unit, a cell site, and a
mobile telephone switching office (MTSO) with
connections to link the three subsystems.
1. Mobile units: A mobile telephone unit contains a
control unit, a transceiver, and an antenna system.
2. Cell site: The cell site provides interface between the
MTSO and the mobile units. It has a control unit, radio
cabinets, antennas, a power plant, and data terminals.

3. MTSO: The switching office, the central coordinating

element for all cell sites, contains the cellular processor and
cellular switch. It interfaces with telephone company zone
offices, controls call processing, provides operation and
maintenance, and handles billing activities.
4. Connections: The radio and high-speed data links connect
the three subsystems. Each mobile unit can only use one
channel at a time for its communication link. But the channel
is not fixed; it can be any one in the entire band assigned by
the serving area, with each site having multichannel
capabilities that can connect simultaneously to many mobile
units.
The MTSO is the heart of the analog cellular mobile
system. Its processor provides central coordination and
cellular administration.

 Digital Systems: A basic digital system consists of four

elements: mobile station, base transceiver station (BTS),
base station controller (BSC), and switching subsystems:
1. MS: It consists of two parts, mobile equipment (ME) and
subscriber identify module(SIM). SIM contains all
subscriber-specific data stored on the MS side.
2. BTS: Besides having the same function as the analog BTS,
it has the Transcoder/Rate Adapter Unit(TRAU), which
carries out coding and decoding as well as rate adaptation
in case data rate varies.
3. BSC: A new element in digital systems that performs the
Radio Resource (RR) management for the cells under its
control. BSC also handles handovers, power management
time and frequency synchronization, and frequency
reallocation among BTSs.

Fundamental Concepts of Cellular Phone

Coverage zone : a large geographic area.
Cells : A cell is the basic geographic unit of a cellular
system. The term cellular comes from the honeycomb
shape of the areas into which a coverage region is divided.
Cells are base stations transmitting over small
geographic areas that are represented as hexagons. Each
cell size varies depending on the landscape. Because of
constraints imposed by natural terrain and man-made
structures, the true shape of cells is not a perfect hexagon.

Clusters : A cluster is a group of cells. No channels

are reused within a cluster.

CONCEPT OF FREQUENCY REUSE CHANNELS

A radio channel consists of a pair of frequencies, one for each
direction of transmission that is used for full-duplex operation. A
particular radio channel, say F1, used in one geographic zone as
named it a cell, say C1, with a coverage radius R can be used in
another cell with the same coverage radius at a distance D away.
Frequency reuse is the core concept of the cellular mobile radio
system. In this frequency reuse system, users in different geographic
locations (different cells) may simultaneously use the same frequency
channel.
The frequency reuse system can drastically increase the spectrum
efficiency, but if the system is not properly designed, serious
interference may occur. Interference due to the common use of the
same channel is called cochannel interference and is our major
concern in the concept of frequency reuse.

 Frequency reuse in the time domain results in the

occupation of the same frequency in different time slots. It
is called time-division multiplexing (TDM).
Frequency reuse in the space domain : Same frequency
repeatedly used in a same general area in one system,
which is used in cellular systems.
There are many cochannel cells in the system. The total
frequency spectrum allocation is divided into K frequency
reuse patterns.

Frequency Reuse Distance

The minimum distance that allows the same frequency to be
reused will depend on many factors, such as the number of
cochannel cells in the vicinity of the center cell, the type of
geographic terrain contour, the antenna height, and the
transmitted power at each cellsite. The frequency reuse
distance D can be determined from

Cell Reuse Pattern

COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION

FACTOR

Reusing an identical frequency channel in different cells is

limited by cochannel interference between cells, and the
cochannel interference can become a major problem.
Assume that the size of all cells is roughly the same. The cell
size is determined by the coverage area of the signal strength
in each cell. As long as the cell size is fixed, cochannel
interference is independent of the transmitted power of each
cell.
It means that the received threshold level at the mobile unit is
adjusted to the size of the cell. Actually, cochannel
interference is a function of a parameter q defined as

CELL SPLITTING
The motivation behind implementing a cellular mobile
system is to improve the utilization of spectrum efficiency.
The frequency reuse scheme is one concept, and cell
splitting is another concept. When traffic density starts to
build up and the frequency channels Fi in each cell Ci cannot
provide enough mobile calls, the original cell can be split into
smaller cells.

There are two kinds of cell-splitting techniques:

1. Permanent splitting: The installation of every new split
cell has to be planned ahead of time; the number of
channels, the transmitted power, the assigned frequencies,
the choosing of the cell-site selection, and the traffic load
consideration should all be considered. When ready, the
actual service cut-over should be set at the lowest traffic
point, usually at midnight on a weekend.
2. Dynamic splitting: This scheme is based on using the
allocated spectrum efficiency in real time. The algorithm for
dynamically splitting cell sites is a tedious job, afford to
have one single cell unused during cell splitting at heavy
traffic hours.

HANDOFF
The handoff is a process of automatically changing
frequencies as the mobile unit moves into a different
frequency zone, so that the conversation can be
continued in a new frequency zone without redialling.
There are two kinds of handoffs, hard and soft. The hard
handoff is brake before make. The soft handoff is
make before brake.
This process of changing frequencies can be done
automatically by the system without the users
intervention.

1. Hard handoff: This is a break-before-make process

and handoff between two frequencies. All FDMA,
TDMA, and OFDMA digital systems, and analog
systems, can perform hard handoffs.
2. Soft handoff: This is a make-before-break process.
Because CDMA has to perform the handoff between
two code channels, not two frequencies, it is difficult to
perform the hard handoffs. Because of the soft
handoffs, the process needs to secure two code
channels during the handoff process.
There are two decision-making parameters of handoff:
(1) based on signal strength.
(2) based on carrier-to-interference ratio.

Handoff between adjacent cell

DIGITAL CELLULAR SYSTEMS (2G)

Many digital cellular and cordless phone systems have been
developed. The cellular systems are GSM, NA-TDMA,
CDMA.
Although analog cellular systems are limited to using:
frequency division multiple-access (FDMA) schemes.
Digital cellular systems can use FDMA, time division
multiple-access (TDMA), and code-division multipleaccess (CDMA).
In an analog system, the signals applied to the transmission
media are continuous functions of the message waveform.
In digital transmission systems, the transmitted signals are
discrete in time, amplitude, phase, or frequency.

GSM
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications,
originally Groupe Spcial Mobile), is a standard set
developed by the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe protocols for
second generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by
mobile phones.
The GSM standard was developed as a replacement for
first generation (1G) analog cellular networks, and
originally described a digital, circuit switched network
optimized for full duplex voice telephony.

 CEPT, a European group, began to develop the Global

System for Mobile TDMA system in June 1982. GSM has
two objectives:
1. pan-European roaming, which offers compatibility
throughout the European continent.
2. Interaction with the integrated service digital network
(ISDN), which offers the capability to extend the singlesubscriber-line system to a multiservice system with
various services currently offered only through diverse
telecommunications networks.
The world's first GSM call was made by the Finnish
prime minister Harri Holkeri to Kaarina Suonio (mayor in
city of Tampere) on 1 July 1991 on a network built by
Telenokia and Siemens and operated by Radiolinja.

GSM Architecture
GSM consists of many subsystems, such as the mobile
station (MS), the base station subsystem (BSS), the
network and switching subsystem (NSS), and the
operation subsystem (OSS)

1. The Mobile Station: The MS may be a stand-alone piece of

equipment for certain services or support the connection of
external terminals, such as the interface for a personal computer or
fax.
The MS includes mobile equipment (ME) and a subscriber
identity module (SIM).ME does not need to be personally assigned
to one subscriber.
The SIM is a subscriber module which stores all the
subscriber-related information. When a subscribers SIM is
inserted into the ME of an MS, that MS belongs to the subscriber,
and the call is delivered to that MS.
2. Base Station Subsystem: The BSS connects to the MS through a
radio interface and also connects to the NSS. The BSS consists of
a base transceiver station (BTS) located at the antenna site and a
base station controller (BSC) that may control several BTS. The
BTS consists of radio transmission and reception equipment
similar to the ME in an MS.

CDMA
Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a digital air
interface standard, claiming eight to fifteen times the
capacity of analog. It employs a commercial adaptation
of military spread-spectrum single-sideband technology.
CDMA is a spread spectrum multiple access technique. A
spread spectrum technique spreads the bandwidth of the
data uniformly for the same transmitted power.
Users are isolated by code, they can share the same
carrier frequency, eliminating the frequency reuse
problem encountered in AMPS and DAMPS.

References
William C. Y. Lee, Wireless and Cellular
Telecommunications, Tata Mcgraw Hill, 3rd
Edition
William C. Y. Lee, Mobile Cellular
communications, Tata Mcgraw Hill, 2nd Edition

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