Table of contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................3
1 Making communications wireless ...................................................................................4
1.1 Evolution of cellular standards.......................................................................................4
1.2 GSM: A historical perspective.........................................................................................10
2 Overview of radio interface processing..........................................................................11
2.1 An overview of the radio interface protocol stack..................................................11
2.2 CDMA based physical layer baseband processing in 3G networks...................15
2.3 OFDM baseband processing in 4G and 5G networks.............................................20
3 Device network radio interface interactions .................................................................27
3.1 Overview of device operations........................................................................................27
3.2 Cell search and cellular network acquisition..............................................................28
3.3 Contacting the cellular network: random access......................................................29
3.4 Device core network interactions...................................................................................30
3.5 Data transfer...........................................................................................................................31
3.6 Handover and cell reselection..........................................................................................34
4 Summary......................................................................................................................................36
5 References...................................................................................................................................37