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4G Wireless Technology: When Will It Happen? What Does It Offer?
4G Wireless Technology: When Will It Happen? What Does It Offer?
4G Wireless Technology: When Will It Happen? What Does It Offer?
4G Wireless Technology:
When will it happen? What does it offer?
Bill Krenik
Chief Technical Officer, Wireless Business Unit
Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, Texas
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The current third generation (3G) offerings are a big What is LTE?
improvement over the previous 3G network products from
several years ago. Figure 1 demonstrates how mobile devices Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology is sometimes called
have changed in the past 7 years. 3.9G or Super 3G and has been developed by the Third
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as an improvement to
The current 3G devices are good, but they will have to the current Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
improve in areas like imaging and processing power to support (UMTS). By using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple
future 4G applications like three dimensional (3D) and Access (OFDMA), LTE will be able to provide download rates
holographic gaming, 16 megapixel (MPixel) smart cameras of 150 Mbps for multi-antenna (2x2) multiple-input multiple-
and high-definition (HD) camcorders. Applications like these output (MIMO) for the highest category terminals. For these
will demand more processing power than the current 3G terminals upload rates in the 50 Mbps range will allow an
handsets offer, requiring more efficient applications processors. efficient transfer of data.
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LTE makes very efficient use of the available spectrum with
channel bandwidths from 1.25 Megahertz (MHz) to 20 MHz.
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allocated amount of spectrum. LTE will also co-exist with LTE/
UMTS/ Wi-MAX ~ 100 Mbps
legacy systems already rolled out around the world. TD-SCDMA to 1Gbps
HSPA ~ 10 to 100 Virtual reality
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High-spectral efficiency OFDMA allows flexible resource
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Well-suited to multiple antennae,
performance levels consumers demand. Consumers today
selective fading
Robust to multi-path MIMO systems (diversity) expect their mobile device to perform with the same or even
better standards than stand-alone devices. These applications
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along with an intuitive, high resolution user interface will
Figure 2: OFDM Offers the Best Spectral Efficiency deliver the 4G experience of tomorrow.
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