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3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, superseding 2G, and preceding 4G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, IMT-2000.
3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional features also include HSPA data transmission capabilities able to deliver speeds up to 14.4Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8Mbit/s on the uplink.
Unlike IEEE 802.11 (common names Wi-Fi or WLAN) networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
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  - 3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, superseding 2G, and preceding 4G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, IMT-2000.
    3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional features also include HSPA data transmission capabilities able to deliver speeds up to 14.4Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8Mbit/s on the uplink.
    Unlike IEEE 802.11 (common names Wi-Fi or WLAN) networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
    Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G)
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    White Paper: 4G and its Evolution
    Though many technologies are currently available for wired and wireless, the 4G concept supports the provisioning of multiple types of services, ranging from simple network access to complex multimedia virtual reality, including voice communication services, which are themselves a challenge in packet-based mobile communications environments. 4G mobile data transmission rates are planned to be up to 100 megabits per second on the move and 1000 ...
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    ARM Launches Solution Center to Foster Innovation and Speed Development of …
    As part of its continued work to foster innovation and openness in connected devices, ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] today announced the Solution Center for Android™, a resource for designers and developers of ARM® technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance™. More than 35 members of the ARM Connected Community™ have joined this initiative, once again demonstrating the strength of...
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    WCDMA for UMTS: HSPA Evolution and LTE
    As wireless communications technologies evolve, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) seems a strong candidate for providing multimedia to the handset, as well as Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services (UMTS)--which is to say common wireless communications standards over most of the world. WCDMA for UMTS sets out to decipher the standards documents of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Specifically, this book...
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    Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Protocols and Protocol Testing
    This tutorial explores the history of mobile communications leading to the proposal of UMTS. The tutorial then explains the architecture of UMTS and the protocols, interfaces, and technologies that go along with it. Finally, this tutorial looks at UMTS measurement and testing where tutorial participants will find real-world situations with practical suggestions for measurement approaches.
    http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/umts/
    
    PSK Demodulator for Wireless Communications Receivers
    Phase-shift keying (PSK) demodulator is widely used in modern wireless communication receivers for waveform phase demodulation and symbol recovery. Innovative Integration (II) has developed a small footprint (<10% with Xilinx Vertex5 SX95T) PSK demodulation system that performs high speed BPSK, QPSK, and 8PSK demodulation with symbol rate up to 1.4MSPS. Together with II digital radio receiver (DRR) providing powerful channelization technique, the II-PSK-demod core can be flexibly customized as multi-channel parallel demodulation systems or as a high speed single channel broad band demodulator. With Xilinx System Generator, the design of Digital Down Converter (DDC) and the demodulation system can be rapidly prototyped and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink environment. II MATLAB/Simulink board support package (BSP) allows designers to implement a mature DSP core on X5 series board within hours, which helps to accelerate the development life cycle.
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    3G Americas
    Founded in January 2002, 3G Americas, LLC unites mobile operators and manufacturers in the Americas to provide a single voice to represent the GSM family of wireless technologies GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS/HSDPA. The founding members of 3G Americas wanted a single organization that could globally address the converged operator networks and their seamless evolution to future generations. This marks a significant milestone for the...
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    myRF.org - Free Telecommunications Books
    Introduction to Telecommunications Network Engineering * Introduction to RF Equipment and System Design * Wireless A to Z * Introduction to 3G Mobile Communications * Introduction to RF Propagation * Theory of Code Division Multiple Access Communication * Theory and Applications of OFDM and CDMA: Wideband Wireless Communications * Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook * Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G: Managing New...
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    3g Portal
    the3Gportal is a community serving the emerging 3G industry. We provide industry professionals and key decision-makers with one location to access the latest 3G news and more. There are over 5,000 links (and growing daily) to 3G-related articles and other information about 3G issues, publications, jobs, public forums, training, value chain players, hot topics, fun things - all of relevance and interest to people working in the 3G industry.
    http://www.the3gportal.com/
    
    3GPP - Third Generation Partnership Project
    The Partners have agreed to co-operate in the production of globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes).
    http://www.3gpp.org/
    
    UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
    UMTS stands for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System UMTS is a part of the International Telecommunications Union’s ’IMT-2000’ vision of a global family of ’third-generation’ (3G) mobile communications systems
    http://www.umts-forum.org/
    
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