Overview of mobile computing technology including 3G and4G
D. J. Marihart · 2001
Summary form only given as follows. This presentation provides an overview of mobile computing technology as it exists today and reviews the promises of tomorrow. Included is a discussion on (a) wireless network advances for circuit switched and packet switched technologies, (b) wireless wide area network (WWAN) compared to wireless local area network (WLAN), (c) radio modulation including effects of latency, error correction, review of the electromagnetic spectrum, (d) mobile network summary, (e) Bluetooth Piconet, (f) wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) along with "success stories of users increasing productivity", (g) cellular data networks and their evolution (CDMA, GSM, TDMA, PDC), and (h) 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G technologies (international mobile telephone, enhanced data rates for global evolution, wideband CDMA, synchronous time division, IP networks), and GigE, "the next big thing in Telco Land".