4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology that provides faster speeds and improved capabilities over 3G networks. Key features of 4G include support for high-speed multimedia services, IP networking, and improved spectral efficiency. Potential applications of 4G include mobile web access, IP telephony, mobile TV, video conferencing, and wireless sensor networks. 4G networks use various radio frequencies for connectivity and allow innovative applications in areas like public safety monitoring, intelligent transportation, and traffic management.
4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology that provides faster speeds and improved capabilities over 3G networks. Key features of 4G include support for high-speed multimedia services, IP networking, and improved spectral efficiency. Potential applications of 4G include mobile web access, IP telephony, mobile TV, video conferencing, and wireless sensor networks. 4G networks use various radio frequencies for connectivity and allow innovative applications in areas like public safety monitoring, intelligent transportation, and traffic management.
4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology that provides faster speeds and improved capabilities over 3G networks. Key features of 4G include support for high-speed multimedia services, IP networking, and improved spectral efficiency. Potential applications of 4G include mobile web access, IP telephony, mobile TV, video conferencing, and wireless sensor networks. 4G networks use various radio frequencies for connectivity and allow innovative applications in areas like public safety monitoring, intelligent transportation, and traffic management.
4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology that provides faster speeds and improved capabilities over 3G networks. Key features of 4G include support for high-speed multimedia services, IP networking, and improved spectral efficiency. Potential applications of 4G include mobile web access, IP telephony, mobile TV, video conferencing, and wireless sensor networks. 4G networks use various radio frequencies for connectivity and allow innovative applications in areas like public safety monitoring, intelligent transportation, and traffic management.
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4G
It is the fourth generation of broadband cellular
network technology, succeeding 3G. A 4G system must provide capabilities defined by ITU in IMT Advanced. Potential and current applications include amended mobile web access, IP telephony, gaming services, high-definition mobile TV, video conferencing, and 3D television.
Why I choose 4g?
I heard that 4G is better than 3G. I’m curious how it does
happen, how it works and I want to learn more about its features, applications and advantages.
4G Features
Support for interactive multimedia, voice, streaming video,
Internet, and other broadband services
IP based mobile system
High speed, high capacity, and low cost per bit
Global access, service portability, and scalable mobile services Seamless switching, and a variety of Quality of Service driven services Better scheduling and call admission control techniques Ad hoc and multi hop networks (the strict delay requirements of voice make multi hop network service a difficult problem) Better spectral efficiency Seamless network of multiple protocols and air interfaces (since 4G will be all •]IP, look for 4G systems to be compatible with all common network technologies, including802.11, WCDMA, Blue tooth, and Hyper LAN). An infrastructure to handle preexisting 3G systems along with other wireless technologies, some of which are currently under development.
4G technologies are 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.
So instead of carriers subsidizing the cost of user
devices (e.g., handsets, PDAs, of laptop computers), consumers actually subsidize and help deploy the network for the carrier. 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 cooperate - rather than compete - for network resources. Thus, as the service gains popularity and the number of user’s increases, service likewise improves for all users. And there is also the 80/20 rules. 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 labor costs means installation costs tend to rise over time, subjecting the service providers 7 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.
Application of 4g
4G Car
With the hype of 3G wireless in the rear view mirror,
but the reality of truly mobile broadband data seemingly too far in the future to be visible yet on the information super highway, it may seem premature to offer a test drive 4G. But the good news is, 4G is finally coming to a showroom near you.
4G and public safety:
There are sweeping changes taking place in
transportation and intelligent highways generally referred to as “Intelligent Transportation Systems” (ITS). “ITS” is comprised of a number of technologies, including information processing, communications, control, and electronics. Using these technologies with our transportation systems, and allowing first responders access to them, will help prevent or certainly mitigate future disasters. Communications, and the cooperation and collaboration it affords, is a key element of any effective disaster response. Historically, this has been done with bulky handheld radios that provide only voice to a team in a common sector. Furthermore, this architecture is still cellular, with singular point of failure, because all transmissions to a given cell must pass through that one cell. If the cell tower is destroyed in the disaster traditional wireless service is eliminated.
Sensors in public vehicle
Putting a chemical-biological-nuclear (CBN) warning
sensor on every government-owned vehicle instantly creates a mobile fleet that is the equivalent of an army of highly trained dogs. As these vehicles go about their daily duties of law enforcement, garbage collection, sewage and water maintenance, etc., municipalities get the added benefit of early detection of CBN agents. The sensors on the vehicles can talk to fixed devices mounted on light poles throughout the area, so positive detection can be reported in real time. And since 4G networks can include inherent geo-location without GPS, first responders will know where the vehicle is when it detects a CBN agent.
Cameras In traffic light:
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, and 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 devices to support the mobile sensor application described above.
History of 4G
The first-release Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard was
commercially deployed in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden in 2009, and has since been deployed throughout most parts of the world. It has, however, been debated whether first-release versions should be considered 4G LTE.
The 4G system was originally envisioned by the DARPA -
the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.DARPA selected the distributed architecture and end-to-end Internet protocol (IP), and believed at an early stage in peer-to-peer networking in which every mobile device would be both a transceiver and a router for other devices in the network, eliminating the spoke- and-hub weakness of 2G and 3G cellular systems. Since the 2.5G GPRS system, cellular systems have provided dual infrastructures: packet switched nodes for data services, and circuit switched nodes for voice calls. In 4G systems, the circuit-switched infrastructure is abandoned and only a packet- switched network is provided, while 2.5G and 3G systems require both packet-switched and circuit-switched network nodes, i.e. two infrastructures in parallel. This means that in 4G traditional voice calls are replaced by IP telephony Advantages of 4G
Quickly download files over a wireless network.
Extremely high voice quality. Easily access Internet, IM, social networks, streaming media, video calling. Higher bandwidth. 4G is 10 times faster than 3G.
Disadvantages of 4g
New frequencies means new components in cell tower
Higher data prices for consumers Consumer is forced to buy a new device to support 4g It is impossible to make your current equipment compatible with the 4G network
Frequencies for 4G LTE networks
Mobile 4G network uses several frequencies:
700 MHz (Band 28 - Telstra / Optus)
850 MHz (Band 5 - Vodafone) 900 MHz (Band 8 - Telstra) 1800 MHz (Band 3 - Telstra / Optus / Vodafone) 2100 MHz (Band 1 - [a small number of Telstra sites] / Optus [Tasmania] / Vodafone) 2300 MHz (Band 40 - Optus [Vivid Wireless spectrum]) 2600 MHz (Band 7 - Telstra / Optus) In Australia, the 700 MHz band was previously used for analogue television and became operational with 4G in December 2014.The 850 MHz band is currently operated as a 3G network by Telstra and as a 4G network by Vodafone in Australia.
Summary of Learnings
I learned that a 4g modern technology had many applications
like 4G car, 4G and public safety, Sensors in public vehicle.4G also had a power to help us to improve our internet connection in terms of searching and downloading. A 4G Modern Technology is the fourth Generation Mobile Network Technology. 4G will replace 3G in the future; 4G provides a more reliable connection and higher speeds to people. 4G LTE means fourth generation long term evolution. LTE is a kind of 4G that provides fastest connection to mobile Internet experience-10 times faster than 3G.