Prospects for a common air interface for cellular and cordless systems

Author

Rashidzadeh, B. ; Mabey, P.

Author_Institution

Philips Radio Commun. Syst. Ltd., Cambridge, UK

fYear

1989

fDate

11-14 Dec 1989

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

166

Abstract

Market forces will eventually force cellular and cordless systems to converge into one integrated network having the virtues of both cellular and cordless systems. The eventual universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) would be a federation of systems with a common but flexible air interface. The authors compare the air interface functions of cellular and cordless systems. The GSM and DECT air interface implementations are taken as examples of cellular and cordless air interfaces respectively. They identify those functions which can have common solutions and those which require dual solutions for the two modes. This work was undertaken as part of the RACE mobile project. They also mention some of the techniques being investigated

Keywords

cellular radio; mobile radio systems; radiotelephony; standards; telecommunication channels; DECT air interface; GSM air interface; RACE mobile project; UMTS; cellular systems; channel allocation; common air interface; cordless systems; digital European cordless telecommunications; group special mobiles; radiotelephony; universal mobile telecommunication system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Mobile Radio and Personal Communications, 1989., Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

Type

conf

Filename

114245