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Wednesday, 13:30 - 15:00, in 5052
Mobile Communications
Lehrstuhl fr Informatik 4 RWTH Aachen
Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Thien Prof. Dr. Otto Spaniol
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Literature
J. Schiller: Mobile Communications. 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2003
Contact
Dirk Thien Lehrstuhl fr Informatik 4, Room 4226 (Building E1) Phone: 0241 / 80 - 21450 E-Mail: thissen@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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The demand for mobile communication creates the need for integration of wireless networks into existing fixed networks: In the local range: standardization of IEEE 802.11, ETSI HIPERLAN In the Internet: Mobile IP as enhancement of normal IP In wide area range: e.g. internetworking of GSM and ISDN
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Applications I
Vehicles Transmission of news, road condition, weather, music via DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) Personal communication using GSM Location tracking via GPS Local ad-hoc network with vehicles close-by to prevent accidents, guidance system, redundancy Vehicle data (e.g., from busses, high-speed trains) can be transmitted in advance for maintenance Emergencies Early transmission of patient data to the hospital, current status, first diagnosis Replacement of a fixed infrastructure in case of earthquakes, hurricanes, fire etc. Crisis, war, ...
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Personal Travel Assistant, DAB, PDA, Laptop, GSM, UMTS, WLAN, Bluetooth, ...
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Applications II
Traveling salesmen Direct access to customer files stored in a central location Consistent databases for all agents Mobile office Replacement of fixed networks Remote sensors, e.g., weather, earth activities Flexibility for trade shows LANs in historic buildings Entertainment, education, ... Outdoor Internet access Intelligent travel guide with up-to-date location dependent information Ad-hoc networks for multi user games
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Mobile Devices
Pager receive only tiny displays simple text messages PDA simple graphical displays character recognition simplified WWW Laptop fully functional standard applications
Sensors, embedded controllers Palmtops tiny keyboard simple versions of standard applications
Performance
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1896 - Guglielmo Marconi First demonstration of wireless telegraphy (digital!) Long wave transmission, high transmission power necessary (> 200kw) 1907 - Commercial transatlantic connections Huge base stations (30 100m high antennas) 1915 - Wireless voice transmission New York - San Francisco 1920 - Discovery of short waves by Marconi Reflection at the ionosphere Smaller sender and receiver, possible due to the invention of the vacuum tube (1906, Lee DeForest and Robert von Lieben) 1926 - Train-phone on the line Hamburg - Berlin Wires parallel to the railroad track
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Wireless Systems
transmission rate (MBit/s)
wired devices
wireless LAN
100.0
10.0
1.0
UMTS CORDLESS
(CT, DECT)
0.1
1992: GSM
1991: CDMA
0.01
CELLULAR (GSM)
walk Outdoor
199x: proprietary 1997: IEEE 802.11 1999: 802.11b, Bluetooth 2000: IEEE 802.11a 2002: IEEE 802.16
Office
Building stationary
Indoor
analogue digital
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Overlay Networks
integration of heterogeneous fixed and mobile networks with varying transmission characteristics regional Vertical Handover metropolitan area
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Application Transport Network Data Link Physical Network Data Link Physical Network Data Link Physical Medium
Radio
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Transport Layer
Chapter 2 Technical Basics: Layer 1 Methods for Medium Access: Layer 2 Chapter 3 Wireless Networks: Bluetooth, WLAN, WirelessMAN, WirelessWAN Mobile Networks: GSM, GPRS, UMTS Satellites and Broadcast Networks Chapter 4 Mobility on the network layer: Mobile IP, Routing, Ad-Hoc Networks Mobility on the transport layer: reliable transmission, flow control, QoS Mobility support on the application layer
Network Layer
Physical Layer
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