3G Technologies:

WCDMA vs CDMA2000

3G TECHNOLOGY
THIRD GENERATION TECHNOLOGY
Evolution from 2nd generation wireless technology
Flexible support of mobile services
voice
messaging email, fax, etc.
medium rate multimedia internet access
high rate multimedia file transfer, video
high rate interactive multimedia video
teleconferencing

Mobility
quasi stationary to high speed platforms

Global Roaming
ubiquitous, seamless coverage

3G EVOLUTIONS

DATA RATES

3G TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOG
Y

GSM

WDMA

CDMA200
0

Carrier Spacing

200 KHz

5 MHz

1.25 MHz

Reuse Factor

1 - 18

Power Control
Frequency

2 Hz

1500 Hz

800 Hz

Quality Control

Radio Resource
Management
algorithm

Network
Planning
(frequency
planning)

Service
Multiplexing
algorithm

Frequency
Diversity

Timeslot based
scheduling with
GPRS

Wideband with
Rake receiver

Packet data
transmitted as
short circuit
switch cells

3G TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOG
Y

GSM

WDMA

CDMA200
0

Downlink Diversity

Not Supported

Supported

Supported

3.84 Mcps

1.2288 Mcps

Chip Rate
Base Station
Synchronization

asynchronous

asynchronous

Synchronous

Frame Duration

120 ms

10 ms

20 ms

Maximum Data
Rate

384 kbps with

EDGE

4.8 Mbps

2 Mbps

3G TECHNOLOGY
SIMILARITIES OF WCDMA
AND CDMA2000
Coherent forward and reverse link
Fast power control
Variable length orthogonal sequences used for DL
channelization
Complex QPSK spreading
Convolutional codes used as baseline
Parallel turbo codes for higher data rates
Variable spreading factor
Soft handover and mobile assisted inter-frequency
hard handoff procedures.