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G Access Teq. System/service Max. Data rate Modulation Carrier BW

2G TDMA GSM 9.6Kbps GMSK 200Khz

2.5G TDMA GPRS 171Kbps GMSK 200Khz

2.75G TDMA EDGE 473Kbps 8PSK 200Khz

3G W-CDMA UMTS DL:384Kbps QPSK 5Mhz

3.5G W-CDMA HSDPA DL:14.4Mbps 16QAM 5Mhz

3.75G W-CDMA HSUPA UL:5.8Mbps 16QAM 5Mhz

3.8G W-CDMA HSPA+ DL:42Mbps 64QAM 5Mhz

OFDMA &
3.9G LTE DL:100Mbps 64QAM 20Mhz
SC-FDMA
OFDMA &
4G LTE Advanced DL:1Gbps 128QAM 100Mhz
SC-FDMA
R4 IMS

R5 HSDPA

R6 HSUPA

R7 HSPA+

R8 LTE, SAE, OFDMA, MIMO, Dual Cell HSDPA

R9 Dual Cell HSDPA with MIMO, Dual Cell HSUPA, LTE

R10 LTE-A

R11 COMP

R12 Carrier Aggregation (2 uplink carriers, 3 downlink carriers), beamforming

ShannonHartley theorem :

C = B log2 (1 + S/N )

C: channel capacity in Bit/sec

B: Bandwidth in Hz
S/N: signal-to-noise ratio
 More Applications

More users

Better performance

High BW Efficiency
BW efficiency = rate / BW Bit per sec / Hz

For GSM

For UMTS

For LTE