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Introduction

4G (known as Beyond 3G), an abbreviation for Fourth-Generation, term used to

describe the next complete evolution in wireless communications. A 4G system will be
able to provide a comprehensive IP solution where voice, data and streamed multimedia
can be given to users on an "Anytime, Anywhere" basis, and at higher data rates than
previous generations. The approaching 4G (fourth generation) mobile communication
systems are projected to solve still-remaining problems of 3G (third generation) systems
and to provide a wide variety of new services, from high-quality voice to high-
definition video to high-data-rate wireless channels. The term 4G is used broadly to
include several types of broadband wireless access communication systems, not only
cellular telephone systems. One of the terms used to describe 4G is MAGIC -Mobile
multimedia, anytime anywhere, Global mobility support, integrated wireless
solution, and customized personal service. As a promise for the future, 4G systems, that
is, cellular broadband wireless access systems have been attracting much interest in the
mobile communication arena. The 4G systems not only will support the next
generation of mobile service, but also will support the fixed wireless networks.
Researchers and vendors are expressing a growing interest in 4G wireless networks
that support global roaming across multiple wireless and mobile networks—for
example, from a cellular network to a satellite-based network to a high-bandwidth
wireless LAN. With this feature, users will have access to different services,
increased coverage, the convenience of a single device, one bill with reduced total
access cost, and more reliable wireless access even with the failure or loss of one or more
networks. 4G networks will also feature IP interoperability for seamless mobile Internet
access and bit rates of 50 Mbps or more.

History

The first analog cellular systems were based on IMTS (Improved Mobile Telephone
Service) and developed in 1970. The systems were “cellular” because coverage areas
were split into smaller areas or cells, each of which is served by a low power transmitter
and receiver.

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FIRST GENERATION (1G)

1G analog system for mobile communications saw two key improvements during
1970’s: the invention of the microprocessor and the digitization of the control link
between the mobile phone and the cell site. An AMPS (Advance Mobile Phone System)
was first launched by US which is 1G mobile system. It is besd on FDMA technology
which allows users to make voice calls within one country.
Access technology used-
FDMA: Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) is the most common analog
system. It is a technique whereby spectrum is divided up into frequencies and then
assigned to users. With FDMA, only one subscriber at any given time is assigned to a
channel. The channel therefore is closed to other conversations until the initial call is
finished, or until it is handed-off to a different channel. A “full duplex “FDMA
transmission requires two channels one for transmitting and the other for receiving.
FDMA has been used for first generation analog systems.
SECOND GENERATION (2G)
2G digital cellular systems were first developed at the end of 1980’s.These systems
digitized not only the control link but also the voice signal. The new system provided
better quality and higher capacity at lower cost to consumers. GSM (Global System for
Mobile communication) was first commercially operated digital cellular system which is
based on TDMA.
Access technology used
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) improves spectrum capacity by
splitting each frequency into time slots. TDMA allows each user to access the entire
radio frequency channel for the short period of call. Other users share this same
frequency channel at different time slots. The base station continually switches from
user to user on the channel.
THIRD GENERATION (3G)
3G systems provide faster communication services, including voice, fax and internet,
anytime and anywhere.3G had opened the way to enabling innovative applications and
services (e.g. multimedia, entertainment, information and location-based services).
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The first 3G network was deployed in Japan in 2001.
Access technology used
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access is based on “spread” spectrum technology.
Since it is suitable for encrypted transmissions, it has long been used for military
purposes. CDMA increases spectrum capacity by allowing all users to occupy all
channels at the same time. Transmissions are spread over the whole radio band, and each
voice or data call are assigned a unique code to differentiate from the other calls carried
over the same spectrum. CDMA allows for a “soft hand-off”, which means that
terminals can communicate with several base stations at the same time.
Short history of mobile technologies
Technology 1G 2G 3G 4G

Design began 1970 1980 1990 2000

Service Analog voice, Digital voice, Higher capacity, Higher capacity,

Synchronous short messages broad band data completely IP
data to 9.6 upto 2 Mbps. oriented,
Kbps. multimedia,
data to hundreds
of megabits

Data bandwidth 1.0 Kbps. 14.4 Kbps. 2 Mbps. 100 Mbps.

Multiplexing FDMA TDMA CDMA OFDM

What is 4G?

Fourth generation (4G) wireless was originally conceived by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the same organization that developed the wired
Internet. It is not surprising, then, that DARPA chose the same distributed
architecture for the wireless Internet that had proven so successful in the wired
Internet. Although experts and policymakers have yet to agree on all the aspects of 4G
wireless, two characteristics have emerged as all but certain components of 4G: end-to-
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end Internet Protocol (IP), and peer-to-peer networking. An all IP network makes sense
because consumers will want to use the same data applications they are used to in wired
networks. A peer-to-peer network, where every device is both a transceiver and a
router/repeater for other devices in the network, eliminates this spoke-and-hub
weakness of cellular architectures, because the elimination of a single node does not
disable the network. 4G technology is significant because users joining the network
add mobile routers to the network infrastructure. Because users carry much of the
network with them, network capacity and coverage is dynamically shifted to
accommodate changing user patterns. As people congregate and create pockets of
high demand, they also create additional routes for each other, thus enabling
additional access to network capacity. Users will automatically hop away from
congested routes to less congested routes. This permits the network to dynamically and
automatically self-balance capacity, and increase network utilization. What may not be
obvious is that when user devices act as routers, these devices are actually part of the
network infrastructure. With a cellular infrastructure, users contribute nothing to the
network. They are just consumers competing for resources. But in wireless ad hoc peer-
to-peer networks, users co-operate rather than compete for network resources. Thus,
as the service gains popularity and the number of user increases, service likewise
improves for all users. And there is also the 80/20 rule. With traditional wireless
networks, about 80% of the cost is for site acquisition and installation, and just 20% is
for the technology. Rising land and labo ur costs means installation costs tend to rise
over time, subjecting the service providers business models to some challenging
issues in the out years. With wireless peer-to-peer networking, however, about 80%
of the cost is the technology and only 20% is the installation. Because technology
costs tend to decline over time, a current viable business model should only become
more profitable over time. The devices will get cheaper, and service providers will
reach economies of scale sooner because they will be able to pass on the
infrastructure savings to consumers, which will further increase the rate of penetration.
This new generation of wireless is intended to complement and replace the 3G systems,

perhaps in 3 to 5 years. Accessing information anywhere, anytime, with a seamless

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connection to a wide range of information and services, and receiving a large volume
of information, data, pictures, video, and so on, are the keys of the 4G infrastructures.
The future 4G infrastructures will consist of a set of various networks using IP
(Internet protocol)as common protocol so that users are in control because they will be
able to choose every application and environment. Based on the developing trends of
mobile communication, 4G will have broader bandwidth, higher data rate, and
smoother and quicker handoff and will focus on ensuring seamless service across a
multitude of wireless systems and networks.
Why 4G is required ?

At the first, we might have a question that why we even require 4G if 3G systems
are working well. It is because of basically two reasons that one is substantial
growth in overall number of subscribers and other is massive demand of new data
services which can be either data, audio, image or video(interactive or non-
interactive). These two factors are enough to cause a substantial bottle neck in
cellular communication services. Though the projected data rate is around 2Mbps in
3G, the actual data rates are slower, especially in crowded areas or when network is
congested. Further the data rates also depends on the users activity (moving or
steady state) and location (indoor/outdoor) as expected, the data services like
multimedia are going to play modest role and will dominate the cellular traffic
instead of voice in future . In such scenario the present 1G & 2G systems will
saturate and will have no room to survive. Also the demand for increasing data rates
leads to higher band width requirement. These factors cause the cellular industry to
develop a common standard for a system that can work to overcome almost all the
limitations imposed by the previous cellular technologies.
The expected features of 4G systems are much higher data rates around 100Mbps,
higher bandwidth requirements of an order of hundreds of MHz, plenty of services
like data, audio, video etc. It will provide Seamless connectivity and improved quality
of service.

Features

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1. Support for multimedia services like teleconferencing and wireless Internet.
2. Wider bandwidths and higher bitrates.
3. Global mobility and service portability.
4. Scalability of mobile network.
5. Entirely Packet-Switched networks.
6. Digital network elements.
7. Higher band widths to provide multimedia services at lower cost(up to 100 Mbps).
8. Tight network security.
4G mobile phone

4G Network
Figure shows the basic concept of 4g network. The future 4G infrastructure will consist of a
set of various networks using internet protocol. As a common protocol so that the users
are in control as they will be able to choose every application and environment.
Accessing information anywhere, anytime with seamless connection to a wide
range of information, obtaining services, receiving a large volume of information,
data, pictures, video and so on are the key of 4G infrastructure .

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Transmission

An OFDM transmitter accepts data from an IP network, converting and encoding prior
to modulation .An IFFT(inverse fast fourier transform) transforms the OFDM signal
into an IF signal, which is sent to RF transmitter. With orthogonal sub-carriers, the
receiver can separate and process each sub-carrier without interference from other
sub-carriers. OFDM provides better link and communication quality. It is more
impervious to fading and multi-path delays than other transmission techniques .

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Architecture in prospects

End-to-end Service Architectures for 4G Mobile Systems:-

A characteristic of the transition towards 3G systems and beyond is that highly

integrated telecommunications service suppliers fail to provide effective economics
of scale. This is primarily due to deterioration of vertical integration scalability with
innovation speedup. Thus, the new rule for success in 4G telecommunications markets
will be to provide one part of the puzzle and to cooperate with other suppliers to
create the complete solutions that end customers require.

A direct consequence of these facts is that a radically new end-to-end service

architecture will emerge during the deployment of 3G mobile networks and will
became prominent as the operating model of choice for the Fourth Generation
(4G) Mobile Telecommunications Networks. This novel end-to-end service
architecture is inseparable from an equally radical transformation of the role of the
telecommunications network operator role in the new value chain of end service
provision. In fact, 4G systems will be organized not as monolithic structures deployed
by a single business entity, but rather as a dynamic confederation of multiple-
sometimes cooperating and sometimes competing-service providers.

End-to-end service architectures should have the following desirable properties:

• Open service and resource allocation model.

• Open capability negotiation and pricing model.

• Trust management. Mechanisms for managing trust relationships among clients and
service providers, and between service providers, based on trusted third
party monitors.

• Collaborative service constellations.

• Service fault tolerance.

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Middleware Architecture:-
The service middleware is decomposed into three layers; i.e. user support layer,
service support layer and network support layer. The criteri on for using a layered
approach is to reuse the existing subsystems in the tradition al middleware. The user
support layer has autonomous agent aspects that traditional service middlewa re
lacks. It consists of 4 sub-systems: ‘Personalization’, ‘Adaptation’, ‘Community’
and ‘Coordination’, to provide mechanisms for context awareness and support for
communities and coordination. Introduction of this functional layer enables the
reduction of unnecessary user interaction with the system and the provision of user-
centric services realized by applying agent concepts, to support analysis of the
current context, personalization depending on the user’s situation, and negotiation for
service usage.
The middle layer, the service support layer, contains most functionality of
traditional middleware. The bottom layer, the network layer supports connectivity for
all-IP networks. The dynamic service delivery pattern defines a powerful interaction
model to negotiate the conditions of service delivery by using three subsystems:
‘Discovery & Advertisement’,‘Contract Notary’ and ‘Authentication & Authorization’.
Cellular Multihop Communications : Infrastructure-Based Relay
Network Architecture:-
It is clear that more fundamental enhancements are ne cessary for the very ambitious
throughput and coverage requirements of fut ure networks. Towards that end , in
addition to advanced transmission techniques and antenna technologies, some major
modifications in the wireless network architecture itself, which will enable effective
distribution and collection of signals to and from wireless users, are sought. The
integration of “multihop” capability into the conventional wireless networks is perhaps
the most promising architectural upgrade.
In a Multihop network , a signal from a source may reach its destination in multiple
hops (whenever necessary) through the use of “relays”. Since we are here
concerned with infra structure-based networks, either the source or destination is a
common point in the network base station (or, access point, in the context of WLANs).
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(due to high path loss) single-hop wireless link with a composite, two or more hop,
better-quality link whenever possible . Relaying is not only efficient in eliminating
black spots throughout the coverage region , but more importantly ,it may extend the
high data rate coverage range of a single BS ; therefore cost effective high data rate
coverage may be possible through the augmentation of the relay ing capability in
conventional cellular networks.
Advantages:-

• Property owners can install their own access points.

- Spreads infrastructure cost.

•Reduced network access operational cost:

- Access points configure into access network.

- Some access points may be moving (bus, train)

• Multihop also could reduce costs in heterogeneous 3G networks.

e.g. of Hetrogenous network

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Overlay network:-

In this architecture, a user accesses an overlay network consisting of several

universal access points (UAP). These UAPs in turn select a wireless network
based on availability , QoS specifications, and user defined choic es. A UAP
performs protocol and frequency translation, content adaptation, and QoS
negotiation-renegotiation on behalf of users .The over lay network, rather than the
user or device, performs handoffs as the user moves from one UAP to another . A
UAP stores user, network, and device information , capabilities , and preferences
.Because UAPs can keep track of the various resources a caller uses, this architecture
supports single billing and subscription.

(a)A multimode device lets the user, device, or network initiate handoff between
networks without the need for network modification or interworking devices.

(b)An overlay network consisting of several universal access points (UAPs) that
store user, network, and device information—performs a handoff as the user
moves from one UAP to another.

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(c)A device capable of automatically switching between networks is possible if
wireless networks can support a common protocol to access a satellite-based
network and another protocol for terrestrial networks.

Wireless technology used in 4G

1. OFDM
2. UWB
3. SMART ANTEENAS
4. IPv6
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM) :-
Orthogonal FDM's spread spectrum technique spreads the data over a lot of carriers
that are spaced apart at precise frequencies. This spacing provides the "orthogonality".
In this method which prevents the receivers/demodulators from seeing frequencies
other than their own specific one. The main benefit of OFDM is high spectral
efficiency, but with OFDM you also get; high resiliency to RF interference, and the
multi-path distortion is lower. This is handy because in a standard terrestrial
broadcasting situation there are high amounts of multipath-channels. since the various
versions of the signal interfere with each other, known as inter symbol interference
(ISI) it becomes incredibly hard to extract the original information. The use of the
discrete Fourier transform (DFT) was originally proposed in 1971 by Weinstein and
Ebert, which greatly reduces the implementation complexity of OFDM systems. This
was further reduced by the development of the fast Fourier transform (FFT). Shortly
after an equalization algorithm was implemented in order to help suppress both ISI
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timing and frequency errors.
In OFDM the subcarrier pulse which is used for transmission is rectangular. This is
why the capability of pulse forming and modulation can be performed by an IDFT,
which can be generated very efficiently as an IFFT. Because of this, the receiver only
needs a FFT to reverse this process. Taking into account the theories of the Fourier
Transform the rectangular pulse shape will end up as a sin(x)/x style of spectrum of
the subcarriers. In traditional FDM the sub-channels aren’t orthogonal therefore need
to be separated by guard bands which obviously wastes much needed spectrum.
Because an IIFT is used for modulation in OFDM, this spacing of the subcarriers is
done in such a way the frequency where we evaluate the received signal all other
signals are zero thus allowing the sub-channels to overlap. But because of this, for an
OFDM system to work using this method, the receiver and the transmitter must be in
perfect synchronisation, and there can’t be any multipath fading, which is unusual
since finding a fix to this is one of the main goals of OFDM.
Luckily there is an easy way to solve this problem. If a guard interval is used, which
is larger than the expected delay spread, which is done by artificially extending the
symbol time and then removing this extension at the receiver, the problem is solved
but with only a minimal loss in bandwidth.
Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
Ultra Wideband technology, or UWB, is an advanced transmission technology that
can be used in the implementation of a 4G network. The secret to UWB is that it is
typically detected as noise. This highly specific kind of noise does not cause
interference with current radio frequency devices, but can be decoded by another
device that recognizes UWB and can reassemble it back into a signal. Since the signal
is disguised as noise, it can use any part of the frequency spectrum, which means that
it can use frequencies that are currently in use by other radio frequency devices .
An Ultra Wideband device works by emitting a series of short, low powered electrical
pulses that are not directed at one particular frequency but rather are spread across the
entire spectrum . As seen in Figure, Ultra Wideband uses a frequency of between 3.1
to 10.6 GHz.
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Spectrum . On the other hand, actual noise would look the same across a range of
frequencies- it has no shape. For this reason, regular noise that may have the same
frequency as the pulse itself does not cancel out the pulse. Interference would have to
spread across the spectrum uniformly to obscure the pulse.
UWB provides greater bandwidth — as much as 60 megabits per second, which is 6
times faster than today’s wireless networks. It also uses significantly less power, since
it transmits pulses instead of a continuous signal. UWB uses all frequencies from high
to low, thereby passing through objects like the sea or layers of rock. Nevertheless,
because of the weakness of the UWB signal, special antennas are needed to tune and
aim the signal.

UWB spectrum

Smart Anteenas
Multiple “smart antennas” can be employed to help find, tune, and turn up signal
information. Since the antennas can both “listen” and “talk,” a smart antenna can send
signals back in the same direction that they came from. This means that the antenna
system cannot only hear many times louder, but can also respond more loudly and
directly as well.
There are two types of smart antennas:-
Switched Beam Anteenas - It have fixed beams of transmission, and
can switch from one predefined beam to another when the user with the phone moves
throughout the sector.
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Adaptive Array Anteenas:- It represent the most advanced smart antenna

approach to date using a variety of new signal processing algorithms to locate
and track the user, minimize interference, and maximize intended signal reception.

Smart antennas can thereby:

• Optimize available power
• Increase base station range and coverage
• Reuse available spectrum
• Increase bandwidth
• Lengthen battery life of wireless devices .
Although UWB and smart antenna technology may play a large role in a 4G system,
advanced software will be needed to process data on both the sending and receiving
side. This software should be flexible, as the future wireless world will likely be a
heterogeneous mix of technologies.

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Anteena as both transmitter & reciever

IPv6
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the method or protocol which data is sent from one
computer to another on the internet. Each computer (known as a host) on the Internet
has at least one IP that uniquely identifies it from all other computers on the Internet.
When you send or receive data (for example, an e-mail note or a Web page), the
message gets divided into little chunks called packets. Each of these packets contains
both the sender's Internet address and the receiver's address. Any packet is sent first
to a gateway computer that understands a small part of the Internet. The gateway
computer reads the destination address and forwards the packet to an adjacent
gateway that in turn reads the destination address and so forth across the Internet until
one gateway recognizes the packet as belonging to a computer within its immediate
neighbourhood or domain. That gateway then forwards the packet directly to the
computer whose address is specified.
Because a message is divided into a number of packets, each packet can, if necessary,
be sent by a different route across the Internet. Packets can arrive in a different order
than the order they were sent in. The Internet Protocol just delivers them. It's up to
another protocol, the Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) to put them back in the
right order.
IP is a connectionless protocol, which means that there is no continuing connection
between the end points that are communicating. Each packet that travels through the
Internet is treated as an independent unit of data without any relation to any other unit
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of data. The reason the packets do get put in the right order is because of TCP, the
connection-oriented protocol that keeps track of the packet sequence in a message.
The most widely used version of IP today is Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4).
However, IP Version 6 is also beginning to be supported.
In order to provide wireless services at anytime and anywhere, terminal mobility is a must
in 4G infrastructures, terminal mobility allows mobile client to roam across boundaries of
wireless networks. There are two main issues in terminal mobility: location management
and handsoff management. With the location management, the system tracks and locates
a mobile terminal for possible connection. Location management involves handling all the
information about the roaming terminals, such as original and current located cells,
authentication information, and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities. On the other hand,
handoff management maintains ongoing communications when the terminal roams.
MobileIPv6 (MIPv6) is a standardized IP-based mobility protocol for Ipv6 wireless
systems. In this design, each terminal has an IPv6 home address whenever the terminal
moves outside the local network, the home address becomes invalid, and the terminal
obtain a new Ipv6 address (called a care-of address) in the visited network. A binding
between the terminal’s home address and care-of address is updated to its home agent in-
order to support continuous communication.
There are two types of handsoff- Horizontal handoff is performed when the terminal moves
from one cell to another cell within the same wireless system. Vertical handoff, however,
handles the terminal movement in two different wireless systems (e.g, from WLAN to
GSM)
Quality of services(QOS)

The Internet provides users with diverse and essential quality of service (Qos)

Particularly given the increasing demand for a wide spectrum of network services.
Many services, previously only provided by traditional circuit-switched networks, can
now be provided on the Internet. These services, depending on their inherent
characteristics, require certain degrees of QoS guarantees. Many technologies are

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therefore being developed to enhance the QoS capability of IP networks. Among these
technologies, differentiated services (DiffServ) and MPLS are paving the way for
tomorrow’s QoS services portfolio.
DiffServ is based on a simple model where traffic entering a network is
classified, policed, and possibly conditioned at the edges of the network, and assigned
to different behaviour aggregates. Each behavior aggregate is identified by a single DS
code point(DSCP). At the core of the network, packets are fast forwarded according to
the per-hop behavior (PHB) associated with the DSCP. By assigning traffic of
different classes to different DSCPs, the DiffServ network provides different
forwarding treatments and thus different levels of QoS.
MPLS integrates the label swapping forwarding paradigm with network layer
routing . First, an explicit path, called a label switched path (LSP), is determined ,and
established using a signaling protocol . A label in the packet header, rather than the IP
destination address, is then used for making forwarding decisions in the network.
Routers that support MPLS are called label switched routers (LSRs). The labels can be
assigned to represent routes of various granularities, ranging from as coarse as the
destination network down to the level of each single flow. Moreover, numerous
traffic engineering functions have been effectively achieved by MPLS. When MPLS is
combined with DiffServ and constraint-based routing, they become powerful and
complementary abstractions for QoS provisioning in IP backbone networks. Supporting
QoS in 4G networks will be a major challenge due to varying bit rates, channel
characteristics, bandwidth allocation, fault-tolerance levels, and handoff support
among heterogeneous wireless networks. QoS support can occur at the packet,
transaction, circuit, user, and network levels.
• Transaction-level QoS describes both the time it takes to complete a transaction
and the packet loss rate. Certain transactions may be time sensitive, while others
cannot tolerate any packet loss.
• Circuit-level QoS includes call blocking for new as well as existing calls. It
depends primarily on a network’s ability to establish and maintain the end-to-end circuit.
Call routing and location management are two important circuit-level attributes.
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location may not support the minimum QoS needed, even with adaptive applications.
In a complete wireless solution, the end-to-end communication between two users will
likely involve multiple wireless networks. Because QoS will vary across different
networks, the QoS for such users will likely be the minimum level these networks
support.
Software defined ratio

Software Defined Radio (SDR) benefits from today’s high processing power to
develop multi-band, multi-standard base stations and terminals. Although in future the
terminals will adapt the air interface to the available radio access technology, at
present this is done by the infrastructure. Several infrastructure gains are expected
from SDR. For example, to increase network capacity at a specific time (e.g. during a
sports event), an operator will reconfigure its network adding several modems at a
given Base Transceiver Station (BTS). SDR makes this reconfiguration easy. In the
context of 4G systems, SDR will become an enabler for the aggregation of multi-
standard pico/micro cells. For a manufacturer, this can be a powerful aid to providing
multi-standard, multi-band equipment with reduced development effort and costs
through simultaneous multi-channel processing

Security
Security requirements of 2G and 3G networks have been widely studied in the
literature. Different standards implement their security for their unique security
requirements.

For example, GSM provides highly secured voice communication among users.
However, the existing security schemes for wireless systems are inadequate for 4G
networks. The key concern in security designs for 4G networks is flexibility. As the
existing security schemes are mainly designed for specific services, such as voice
service, they may not be applicable to 4G environments that will consist of many
heterogeneous systems. Moreover, the key sizes and encryption and decryption
algorithms of existing schemes are also fixed. They become inflexible when applied
to different technologies and devices (with varied capabilities, processing powers, and

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security needs). As an example, Tiny SESAME is a lightweight reconfigurable
security mechanism that provides security services for multimode or IP-based
applications in 4G networks.

Application
Application to Admission Control in Cellular Packet Networks:-
Based on the developing trends of mobile communication, 4G will have broader
bandwidth, higher data rate, and smooth er and quicker handoff and will focus on
ensuring seamless service across a multitude of wireless systems and networks.
The key concept is integrating the 4G capabilities with all of the existing mobile
technologies through advanced technologies. Application adaptability and being
highly dynamic are the main features of 4G services of interest to users.
Emerging wireless technologies such as 4G tend to be packet-switched rather
than
circuit-switched because the packet-based architecture allows for better sharing of
limited wireless resources. In a packet network, connections (packet flows) do not
require dedicated circuits for the entire duration of the connection. Unfortunately, this
enhanced flexibility makes it more difficult to effectively control the admission of
connections into the network.

4G in normal life:-
Traffic Control
Some major cities have deployed cameras on traffic lights and send those images
back to a central command center. This is generally done using fiber, which limits
where the cameras can be hung, i.e., no fiber, no camera. 4G networks
allow cities to deploy cameras and backhaul them wirelessly. And instead of
having to backhaul every camera, cities can backhaul every third or fifth or tenth
camera, using the other cameras as router/repeaters. These cameras can also serve
as fixed infrastructure
Location application
4G location applications will be based on visualized, virtual navigation schemes that
will support a remote database containing graphical representations of streets,

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buildings and another physical characteristic of a large metropolitan area. This data
base could be accessed by subscribers in vechicles.
Telemedicine
A paramedic assisting a victim of a traffic accident in a remote location could access
medical records (X-rays) and establish a video conference so that a remotely based
surgeon could provide ‘on-scene’ assistance
Traffic Control During Disaster
If a hurricane hits the Coast and cars start driving south-east, 4G networks can allow
officials to access traffic control boxes to change inland traffic lanes to green. Instead
of having to send officers to every box onroads being overwhelmed by civilians who
are evacuating, it can all be done remotely, and dynamically. In a September 11 type
environment, lights could also be forced to red to prevent civilians from driving into
harm’s way.
In the event of natural disasters where the entire communications infrastructure is in
disarray, restoring communications quickly is essential. With wideband wireless mobile
communications, limited and even total communication capability(including Internet and
video services) could be set up within hours instead of days or even weeks required at
present for restoration of wire line communications

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Wireless technology in news

1). Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the 3G services of MTNL Delhi under
the banner of “Jaadu” or “Magic”. Mumbai will get the services in 2 months from
now. - Dec.2008

2). Union minister for communication and IT A Raja launched BSNL's 3G services
pan India, from Chennai, on Sunday, by making the first video call to TN chief
minister M Karunanidhi . -Feb.2009

3). Micromax , MTNL launch India’s cheapest 3G handset- H360. With the aim of
extending Third Generation mobile services to the masses, Micromax and MTNL
launched 3G-enabled Micromax H360, with a competitive price tag of
Rs. 5499. –Aug 2009
4). 3G services have already become popular in Japan, UK,Hong Kong, Australia,
Sweden and Denmark. NTT DoCoMo has a subscriber base of more than 3.5m in Japan.
Swedish mobile service provider ‘3’ has a subscriber base of 350,000 in Sweden and
Denmark, adding around 150,000 customers since mid-August. In UK, Hutchison is the
3G service provider.
2). While India is preparing itself to get immersed in 3G mobile telephones, the US
Mobile Manufacturer, Motorola, wants to take a step further by testing the next gen
telephony, 4G, in India. If this testing comes into effect, then it will the government’s
plan to raise Rs 35,000 crore from selling radio frequency for 3G.
The company is planning to request the Department of Telecom (DoT) for a trial
spectrum, Mr Subhendu Mohanty, a senior executive with Networks Mobility
Business, Motorola India, told. -24 Aug 2009

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Limitations
Although the concept of 4G communications shows much promise, there are still
limitations that must be addressed. A major concern is interoperability between the
signaling techniques that are planned for use in 4G.
Cost is another factor that could hamper the progress of 4G technology. The
equipment required to implement the next-generation network are still very
expensive.
A Key challenge facing deployment of 4G technologies is how to make the network
architectures compatible with each other. This was one of the unmet goals of 3G.
As regards the operating area, rural areas and many buildings in metropolitan areas
are not being served well by existing wireless networks.

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Conclusion
As the history of mobile communications shows, attempts have been made to reduce a
number of technologies to a single global standard. Projected 4G systems offer this
promise of a standard that can be embraced worldwide through its key concept of
integration. Future wireless networks will need to support diverse IP multimedia
applications to allow sharing of resources among multiple users. There must be a low
complexity of implementation and an efficient means of negotiation between the end
users and the wireless infrastructure. The fourth generation promises to fulfill the goal of
PCC (personal computing and communication)—a vision that affordably provides high
data rates everywhere over a wireless network.

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