REFERENCE: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - THEODORE RAPPAPORT

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Mobile Communications- Jochen Schiller

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Switching
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Handoff Mechanism

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3G Mobile communication
The third-generation concept started in 1992, when ITU issued a blueprint called
the Internet Mobile Communication 2000 (IMT-2000). The blueprint defines
some criteria for third-generation technology as outlined below:
o Voice quality comparable to that of the existing public telephone network.
o Data rate of 144 kbps for access in a moving vehicle (car), 384 kbps for access
as the user walks (pedestrians), and 2 Mbps for the stationary user (office or
home).
o Support for packet-switched and circuit-switched data services.
o A band of 2 GHz.
o Bandwidths of each channel is 2 MHz.
o Interface to the Internet.

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