A perspective on the evolution of mobile communications

Author

Tachikawa, Keiji

Volume

41

Issue

10

fYear

2003

fDate

10/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

73

Abstract

This article outlines the current state of mobile communications and presents some of the future directions in research and development from the perspective of NTT DoCoMo with special emphasis on the market in Japan. It first describes the directions in which mobile communications are expected to forge ahead in the future, and the service implementation strategies they could employ. Then it describes an example of mobile multimedia services and present an outline of the Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA), which is a service based on the 3G mobile communications system called International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT2000). This is followed by an overview of our R&D approach to 4G systems, which constitute mobile communications systems of the future, and the profile of technologies to make these happen. Finally, it reviews our approach to future technologies that are expected to be realized in 4G and subsequent systems, and illustrate it with an example of a research project.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; 4G mobile communication; multimedia communication; research initiatives; 3G mobile communications system; 4G systems; FOMA; Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access; IMT2000; International Mobile Telecommunications-2000; Japan market; NTT DoCoMo; R&D; mobile communications evolution; mobile multimedia services; research and development; research project; service implementation; Computer networks; Electrical products; Humans; Mobile communication; Multimedia systems; Pervasive computing; Telephony; Web and internet services; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2003.1235597

Filename

1235597