Designing and Testing EDGE Phones Designing and Testing EDGE Phones The EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution) specification was established in Europe, and there was a debate as to whether WCDMA (UMTS) or EDGE should be established first. How should EDGE be positioned, as an alternative to WCDMA or as a complement? In the United States, EDGE was used to pave the way for TDMA operators to move to 3G, using a slightly different \"EDGE Compact\" to handle the low bandwidth available in mixed TDMA/EDGE networks. But this approach was abandoned as many TDMA operators decided to replace TDMA with GSM. Now, even European operators are seeing the benefits of EDGE and are adopting it. Mobile phone manufacturers have begun shipping EDGE-enabled phones to the European, Asian and American markets, and it is clear that we need to be forward-looking about how EDGE is different and what to measure in addition to GSM, as EDGE phones still use GSM mode voice calls! What is new in EDGE technology? EDGE adds a new modulation scheme to both the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) data protocols, which triples the data rate of these EDGE data services. When EDGE is used with GPRS, it is called EGPRS (Enhanced GPRS), and HSCSD is called ECSD (Enhanced Circuit Switched Data). However, since HSCSD is not very common, this article focuses on EDGE and GPRS. EDGE can choose between two modulation methods, GMSK and 8PSK. The latter transmits 3 bits per symbol, compared to GMSK modulation, which transmits only one bit per symbol. Thus, the introduction of EDGE has the greatest impact on Layer 1, the physical layer; the impact on upper layers is limited. In the network, EDGE parameters affect only the base stations, not the core network. Although the additional requirements for wireless terminals are mainly in the physical layer, the impact on the terminals is much higher. The amplitude of the signal transmitted by the mobile phone is no longer constant, because it no longer rotates in a circle as in GMSK. In fact, it can change from one phase state to one of 8 phase states, and as a result, the amplitude may pass through the origin of the I/Q plane. To avoid this, the entire I/Q...
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