UMTS

Mohamed Mokdad
Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Bienne
 GSM Evolution
• Licensing
– Business spreading over boarders
• Technology
– 1st Generation - 1G
• Analog cellular
– 2nd Generation - 2G
• Multiple digital systems
– 3rd Generation - 3G
• HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE (1/2 generation)
• i.e. GSM Evolution
Bit Rate Evolution
 IMT-2000 families

IMT-2000

UMTS – 3GPP CDMA-2000 ?

Europe
Japan
USA USA USA
Korea
China
 SDOs and UMTS
• Europe
– 3GPP
– ETSI, ARIB, TTA, CWTS, T1 and TTC
– W-CDMA interface = UTRA
• USA
– US national standard
– Compatible to IMT-2000, i.e. to UMTS
– CDMA2000
 IMT-2000 Families
• Total of 17 families in 1998
– All accepted by ITU
– 11 terrestrial and 6 via satellite
• The important ones
– UMTS (W-CDMA)
• GSM successor
– CDMA2000 (TD-SCDMA)
• AMPS/GSM successor
 IMT-2000 criteria
• Used worldwide
– Interoprability
• Used for all mobile applications
• PS and CS support
– PS implies IP support
• Higher data rates
– Up to 2 mbps: 144, 384 and 2048 kbps
• Higher sprectrum efficiency
IMT-2000 = IT&T integration
 UMTS - the European system
• Main improvement
– UTRA: UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
– W-CDMA for land mobile systems
• UTRA supports
– TDD: Time Division Duplex
• For micro and pico cells
– FDD: Frequency Division Duplex
• For wide area coverage
– UTRA Multicarrier
Remember
Spread spectrum or not?
 GSM-UMTS interoperability
• UTRAN
– UTRA: UMTS Terrestrial Access Network
• GSM-Only
– Access via Um interface
• GSM/UMTS
– Access via Uu interface
• If no UMTS coverage
– Access via Um with reduced bandwidth
 Licensing
• More than one mobile operator
– CH: Swisscom, Sunrise, Orange & Telefonica
– Famous cases: Germany and UK
• Licensing
– Auction (based just on money income)
– Ethics (based on social aspects as well)
• UMTS issues
– Very high investment and unknown revenue
 Spectrum availability

1850 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 2250

2010 MHz

ITU “IMT-2000” IMT 2000 MSS IMT 2000 MSS

2025 MHz 2110 MHz 2170 MHz

1885 MHz

Europe GSM 1800 DECT UMTS MSS UMTS MSS

1880 MHz 1980 MHz 2170 MHz

1919.6 MHz
Swiss Case
 UMTS technology
• Architecture Overview
• UMTS Network Architecture Overview
• Universal Terrestial Radio Access Network
– UTRAN Architecture
• Core Network Architecture
• Protocol Architecture
• Understanding Different Channels Types
 UMTS Cells

Mega Cell >10 km Macro Cell 5-10 Km

Micro Cell 0.5 km Pico Cell 100 m
U-MSC
Node B and RNC

RNC = Radio Network COntroller

 UTRA = UTRAN?

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

 RNC to RNC?

CN

Iur
RNC RNC
 UMTS Interfaces bis
• RAN
– Radio Access Network
• RAN  Core Network
– PS to Data CS to Circuit switched networks
• UE  Node B: Uu (Um for GSM)
• Node B  RNC: Iub
• RNC  RNC: Iur (new to GSM)
• RNC  GSM: Iu
 UMTS Interfaces
UE
ME

MT

USIM TE TA UTRAN/CN

Cc R Uu

TA: Terminal Adaptor.

MT: Mobile Termination.
ME: Mobile Equipment.
UE: User Equipment
UTRAN: UMTS Radio Access Network.
CN: Core Network.
PS & CS Paths
The Stack