DECT

Tom Jongsma
 Contents
History of DECT
 History of DECT
DECT = Digital Enhanced Cordless
Telecommunications
First release of the standard in 1992
Designed for short-range
Access mechanism to main networks
Extension to the standard in 1995
emergency call procedures
optional direct portable to portable communication feature
1880 1900 MHz
Outside Europe also 1900 1920 MHz
1910 1930 MHz (several countries in Latin America)
Reservation in some countries 2010 MHz 2025 MHz
 Basic Operating Principles
The principles as applied in the DECT standard have been designed
to meet the following objectives:
high capacity cellular structured network access
allowing for network wide mobility
Flexible and powerful identities and addressing
high spectrum efficiency
reliable - high quality and secure - radio access
robustness even in hostile radio environments
speech transmission quality comparable to the wired telephony
service
enabling cost efficient implementations of system components
allowing for implementation of a wide variety of terminals like e.g.
small pocketable handsets
flexibility towards varying bandwidth needs (which is bandwidth on
demand e.g. for ISDN and data applications)

Furthermore, the standard reflects a high degree of flexibility in the

protocols to enable future extension.
 Channels
1880 1900 10 channels
Modulation GFSK (Gaussian Frequency Shift
Keying) BT=0.5
Dynamic channel allocation to reduce
interference
all equipment scans for at least 30 seconds as
background activity
 Access methodology
A number of techniques are used:
Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
Time Division Duplex (TDD)
Time frames of 10ms
Each frame 24 timeslots
First 12 downlink transmission
Second 12 used for uplink

Basic full duplex speech uses 2 paired timeslots

with 5ms separation (32 kbps (ADPCM G.726
coded))
ADPCM
 TDMA
Serves up to 12 simultaneous basic
voice connections per transceiver.
Average transmission power
Europe
10 mW (250 mW peak)
US
4 mW (100 mW peak)
 Other features
For data transmission purposes error protected net throughput
rates of n x 24 kbit/s can be achieved, up to a maximum of 552
kbit/s with full security as applied by the basic DECT standard.
Using the MC/TDMA/TDD principle for basic DECT (utilising both
frequency and time dimensions) a total spectrum of 120 duplex
channels is available to a DECT de-vice at any instant location.
Therefore dense packing of DECT base stations (e.g. at a distance
of 25 m in an ideal hexagonal coverage model) will allow for a
traffic capacity of the basic DECT tech-nology up to approx. 10000
Erlang/km^2
Questions?
 Bibliography
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