2011

Is Nokia Now Out Of Hibernation?

Today the markets closed with Nokia increasing its stock value by about 7%. Could this be the comeback everyone had been waiting for? Will this latest string of Windows phones get Nokia back in the race?

The Unsung Heroes In Mobile Space

The general population knows little or nothing about mobile platform vendors who manufacture GSM, CDMA, 3G and LTE chipsets for mobile phones. When we talk mobiles the first buzz words we hear are IPhone, Nokia, Samsung or Android. Even the leading websites on technology do not discuss much about the evolution of this product family.

Telecom Pros in Focus : Interview With Senior IOT Engineer Kishor Kumar Gurusiddappa

Our today’s guest is the very experienced telecoms engineer Kishor Kumar Gurusiddappa, he specialises in the telecom industry with a number of years of experience of working both for Network and UE vendors. Though he had always been interested in the Telecommunications and the dynamics of the industry, he himself calls his introduction to the telecom business an accident, the (more ..)

LTE (E-UTRA) UM RLC PDU Encoding With Examples

LTE Unacknowledged Mode (UM) RLC PDU overview is discussed in another tutorial. If you want to learn the basics of UM data PDUs you can check the following tutorial. LTE RLC PDU Structure & Encoding In this tutorial examples for most important encoding techniques used for UM RLC PDUs are discussed. UMD PDU with 5 bit SN (No LI) Assumptions (more ..)

Soft & Softer Handover In UMTS System

What are soft and softer handover in 3G UMTS mobile system? Handovers are an important part of every cellular communication system. They are used for providing mobility in cellular architectures. In UMTS systems different handover types have been introduced to cope also with other requirements as load control, coverage provisioning and offering quality of services. Handover aims to provide continuity (more ..)

5 Reasons Why Testing Is Important For User Equipments

After much evolution of telecommunication technologies we are now in a generation where mobile communication is the biggest medium of communication. Apart from biggest now Mobile communication is one of the most complex systems ever used so vastly around the globe. In mobile communication system User Equipment (Mobile Stations) are one of the most important node. To make sure that (more ..)

Tricks to Read and Understand 3GPP Specifications

3GPP specifications are backbone of 3G, IMS, HSPA, Enhanced UTRA technologies. To understand a certain aspect of a protocol stack or encoding of PDUs or to study deep into physical layer one need to understand the respective specifications.   The specifications are developed taking into consideration that they should describe the behaviors of certain layer but the implementations in most (more ..)