What is 4G technology When talking about 4G, question comes to our mind is what is 4G Technology.

4G is short for Fourth (4th) Generation Technology. 4G Technology is basically the extension in the 3G technology with more bandwidth and services offers in the 3G. But at this time nobody exactly knows the true 4G definition. Some people say that 4G technology is the future technologies that are mostly in their maturity period. The expectation for the 4G technology is basically the high quality audio/video streaming over end to end Internet Protocol. If the Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia sub-system movement achieves what it going to do, nothing of this possibly will matter. WiMAX or mobile structural design will become progressively more translucent, and therefore the acceptance of several architectures by a particular network operator ever more common. 4G Technology offers high data rates that will generate new trends for the market and prospects for established as well as for new telecommunication businesses. 4G networks, when tied together with mobile phones with in-built higher resolution digital cameras and also High Definition capabilities will facilitate video blogs. After successful implementation, 4G technology is likely to enable ubiquitous computing, that will simultaneously connects to numerous high date speed networks offers faultless handoffs all over the geographical regions. Many network operators possibly utilize technologies for example; wireless mesh networks and cognitive radio network to guarantee secure connection & competently allocates equally network traffic and bandwidth. Some of the companies trying 4G mobile communication at 100 Mbps for mobile users and up to 1 Gbps over fixed stations. They planned on publicly launching their first commercial wireless network around 2010. As far as other competitors mobile communication companies working on 4G technology even more quickly. Sprint Nextel was planned to launch WiMAX over 4G broadband mobile network in United States. Some of the other developed countries like United Kingdom stated a plan to sale via auction of 4G mobile frequencies couple of years back. The word MAGIC also refers to 4G technology which stands for Mobile multimedia, Any-where, Global mobility solutions over, Integrated wireless and Customized services. MAGIC of 4G Technology So far there has been no specific definition to this successor of 2G and 3G. However it has been used often to denote a fast internet access available to mobile phone users. More over the distinguishing feature of high multimedia streaming and end to end IP configuration is judged to be its MAGIC enchantment.3G utilized WiMax and WiFi as separate wireless technologies, whereas 4G is expected to coalesce these two technologies. Hence one can evaluate how efficient it would become when combining two extremely reliable technologies. 4G can greatly anticipate in evolving and advancing the pervasive computing. The aim of pervasive computing is to attach itself to every living space possible, so that human beings remain intact with the wireless technology intentionally and unintentionally. Therefore 4G is be able to connect various high speed networks together, which would enable each one of us to carry digital devices even in dispersed locations. The network operators worldwide would

be able to deploy wireless mesh networks and make use of cognitive radio technology for widespread coverage and access. 4G Technologies

4G is a multi purpose and versatile technology hence it can utilize almost all of the packet switched technologies. It can use both orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). OFDM mechanism splits a digital signal into different narrowband and frequencies. The reason why 4G makes use of this technology lies in its ability to minimize the intervention among symbols and channels associated to data streaming.4G is also capable of using multiple input / multiple output technology (MIMO).this antenna technology is used to optimize the data speed and reduce the errors in the networks. Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service (UMTS) which is basically a broadband 3G technology is also a part of 4G. This broadband technology transfers data in the form of frames or packets. Hence it is capable of carrying voice, video, text and other types of multimedia datagram with the speed of 2Mb. UMTS is part of 4G because it can enables 4G to make use of international mobile phone roaming via using GSM (Global system for Mobile Communications).another wireless telecommunication technology known as time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) provides support to 4G to transfer both circuit switched data like video and voice and packet switched data.

4Gs New Horizon of Opportunities

The telecommunication companies like NTT Docomo from Japan and Sprint Nextel were also deploying 4G wireless technologies from the early 2006 along with 3G mobile technologies. The flexibility of 4G technologies to be used in combination with GSM and CDMA has provided it an edge over other technologies. The reason is that the high broadband capability of 4G not only increases data streaming for stationary users but also for mobile users.4G can be efficiently combined with cellular technologies to make consistent use of smart phones. The digital cameras attached in smart phones can be used to establish video blogs in scattered geographical regions. This gives the manufactures the opportunity to produce more affordable user friendly 4G compatible devices. Famous iPod is one such device that supports the working of video blogs. Hence 4G is capable of providing new horizon of opportunity for both existing and startup telephone companies. 4G Technology and its predecessors 3G, 2G and 1G are all from the same family of cellular communication standards, which are verified by the ITU. The ITU i.e. International Telecommunications Union is established by the United Nation, which administers all the telecommunications matters all over the world. The earlier technologies like 1G and 2G did not able to cope up with the current technologies 3G and the latest 4G. The earlier telephone systems, which were the original ones, are

now called 1G. In the year 1991, 2G started to replace the old 1G and was first launched in Finland. The network system of 2G was way more than the 1G, had better radio communication and 2G networks were digital. 3G After 2G, came the more efficient technology 3G, it established its roots in late 2000, while ITU agreed to the 3G standards in 1999. The Third Generation technology now can easily be found all over the world on nearly all standard radio technologies such as CDMA and the GSM. The first cellular network provider that set up the 3G grid in the year 2003, is Verizon. 3G technology provides up to 2 mpbs data transfer rate at fixed spots (when user is stationary) and minimum 384 kbps when the user is moving. Today almost all the well-known carriers of US provide 3G service and now there are lots of gadgets available in the market with 3G capability. 4G 4G technology, the Fourth Generation Technology, is the very latest and ultra fast technology and it is getting more attention day by day even though this technology is still at its initial stages. 4G technology aims to provide fastest speed to all the users, to the users of mobile or smartphones it intends to provide data transfer rate up to 100 mbps while for its stationary users, it aims to the highest speed of 1 Gbps. WiMAX and LTE These are two 4G cellular broadband networks. The WiMAX provides speed up to 128mbps of downloading and for uploading it provides 56mbps, whereas LTE showed in an early implementation speed up to 100mbps downloading and 50 mbps uploading. ITU considers the LTE (Long-Term Evolution) as a standard technology because LTE aims to exceed the specifications of ITU. While WiMAX on the other hand is an IEEE standard, also ITU doesnt considered WiMAX a true 4G technology because it is not up to the specifications that ITU put forth. Applications At the present rates of 15-30 Mbit/s, 4G is capable of providing users with streaming high-definition television. At rates of 100 Mbit/s, the content of a DVD-5 (for example a movie), can be downloaded within about 5 minutes for offline access 4G wireless standards 3GPP is currently standardizing LTE Advanced as future 4G standard. A first set of 3GPP requiremens on LTE Advanced has been approved in June 2008[15]. The working groups are currently evaluating various proposals for standardization. LTE Advanced will be standardized as part of the Release 10 of the 3GPP specification What is the disadvantage of 4g technology? 4G features: According to the 4G working groups, the infrastructure and the terminals of 4G will have almost all the standards from 2G to 4G implemented. Although legacy systems

are in place to adopt existing users, the infrastructure for 4G will be only packet-based (all-IP). Some proposals suggest having an open internet platform. Technologies considered to be early 4G include Flash-OFDM, the 802.16e mobile version of WiMax (also known as WiBro in South Korea), and HC-SDMA (see iBurst). 3GPP Long Term Evolution may reach the market 1-2 years after Mobile WiMax. An even higher speed version of WiMax is the IEEE 802.16m specification. LTE Advanced will be the later evolution of the 3GPP LTE s