UNIT-4 Notes
UNIT-4 Notes
Introduction:
As we know AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) cellular network has been developed for
voice communication in 1980s. Due to long established setup times and modem handshaking
requirement packet data communication was not supported by AMPS. In order to support packet
data, CDPD has been introduced in 1993.
Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) was developed by IBM (along with a consortium of
Regional Bell Operating Companies) and other organizations to leverage the existing installed
base of AMPS cellular equipment in the United States to provide low-cost, packet-switched data
services.CDPD was first offered in 1994 by Bell Atlantic Mobile.
CDPD stands for Cellular Digital Packet Data. Though it has its own infrastructure it utilizes
vacant AMPS assigned channels or gaps between the channels for packet communication. CDPD
architecture is explained below. It co-exist with AMPS network architecture. Hence it supports
both data and voice communication.
The figure depicts CDPD network architecture. As shown it consists three major system
elements M-ES, MDBS and MD-IS. Moreover CDPD co-exist with AMPS network and hence
will have fall back to AMPS for voice call. Figure shows AMPS-BS and AMPS-MSC which are
part of AMPS network connected with PSTN for voice connectivity.
There are three CDPD interfaces viz. E-interface, I-interface and A-interface. E-interface exists
between CDPD and fixed network external to CDPD. I-interface exists between two CDPD
networks. A-interface exists between BS and MS. It is also known as Air interface.
Although CDPD supports data transmission rates of 19.2 Kbps and higher, actual
data throughput is usually around 9.6 Kbps. This is because of the large overhead
added by CDPD to each data block transmitted. This overhead is designed to ensure
that communications are reliable and to maintain synchronization between the
modems at each end of the transmission. In addition, a color code is added to every
data block to detect interference resulting from transmissions on the same channel
from neighboring cell sites.
Cellular Digital Packet Data makes use of idle times between calls in cellular phone network
channels for interleaving packets of digital data. In other words, CDPD makes use of the
«bursty» nature of typical voice transmission on the AMPS cellular system. Voice
communication
CDPD uses the Reed-Solomon forward-error-correcting code to encode each block or burst of
data sent, and includes built-in RC4 encryption to ensure security and privacy of the transmitted
data. CDPD is also based on the industry standard Internet Protocol (IP), allowing data to be
transmitted to and from the Internet.
Mobile-End System (M-ES): A user device such as a laptop equipped with a cellular
modem. This system communicates in full-duplex mode with a Mobile Data Base Station (MDBS)
using the Digital Sense Multiple Access protocol, which prevents collisions of data streams from
multiple Mobile-End Systems.
Mobile Data Base Station (MDBS): A telco device for receiving and transmitting CDPD
data.
Mobile Data Intermediate System (MDIS): Provides the central control for a CDPD
network.
CDPD is typically used to provide wireless access to public packet-switched networks such as
the Internet so that mobile users can access their e-mail and other services. Multiple users can
share the same channel; the user’s modem determines which packets are destined for the user’s
machine. CDPD also supports IP multicasting and is an open standard based on the Open
Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model for networking.