Title : 
ETSI WCDMA for UMTS
         
        
            Author : 
Toskala, Antti ; Holma, Harri ; Muszynski, Peter
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Radio Access Syst., Nokia Telecommun., Finland
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents an overview of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) wideband CDMA (WCDMA) concept selected by ETSI for the FDD component of UMTS terrestrial radio access (UTRA). The selection process was completed in January 1998 and the selection point started the actual technology refinement and specification work after the selection. The WCDMA concept selected for the UTRA FDD mode is based on direct sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) with 4.096 Mchips/s chip rate and is designed with both the flexibility to the third generation services and GSM compatibility in mind. This paper describes the main features of the UTRA FDD mode based on WCDMA technology
         
        
            Keywords : 
broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; frequency division multiplexing; radio access networks; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication standards; DS-CDMA; ETSI WCDMA; European Telecommunications Standards Institute; FDD component; GSM compatibility; UMTS; UMTS terrestrial radio access; UTRA; direct sequence CDMA; third generation services; wideband CDMA; 3G mobile communication; Downlink; Frequency conversion; GSM; Multiaccess communication; Proposals; Quadrature phase shift keying; Telecommunication standards; Time division multiple access; Wideband;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE 5th International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Sun City
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-4281-X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISSSTA.1998.723859