Multi mode wireless terminals - key technical challenges

Author

Loke, Aravind ; Abdelgany, Mohy

fYear

2003

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Increasing demand for seamless connectivity on mobile platforms is fueling phenomenal technological innovation in the wireless industry. In addition to second and third generation digital cellular standards striving to provide subscribers with higher data rates along with voice several competing standards like wireless local area networks (WLAN) and Bluetooth are gaining consumer acceptance as viable solutions for data connectivity. Industry is rapidly moving towards convergence of radio technology to cater for multiple communication standards on a single platform. Key technical challenges in the implementation of radio architectures for multi mode radio are presented.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Bluetooth; broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; packaging; radio data systems; radio receivers; radio transmitters; telecommunication standards; voice communication; wireless LAN; 2G/3G digital cellular standards; Bluetooth; CDMA; GSM; WCDMA; WLAN; code division multiple access; data connectivity; data rates; direct conversion; global system for mobile communication; multi mode radio; multi-mode wireless terminals; packaging technology; radio architectures; radio receivers; radio technology convergence; radio transmitters; seamless mobile platform connectivity; single platform multiple communication standards; voice communication; wide band code division multiple access; wireless local area networks; Bluetooth; CMOS process; CMOS technology; GSM; Integrated circuit packaging; Multiaccess communication; Personal digital assistants; Radio frequency; Signal processing; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7694-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2003.1213882

Filename

1213882