(NetworkWorld.Com) China on Wednesday lauded Taiwan’s launch of a 3G mobile network using Chinese TD-SCDMA technology as a successful display of how they can work together on technical standards. Executives and officials from both places on Wednesday concluded a technical standards forum in Taipei where they discussed TD-SCDMA (Time-Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), as [...]

China issued 3G licenses in January, 2009, to three telcos, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said the country would invest CNY400 billion (US$59 billion) in the next three years. China Mobile received a licence forTD-SCDMA, the domestically-developed 3G standard, China Telecom will use the US-developed CDMA2000 and China Unicom will use WCDMA(GSM).

New Items in Rel-10: Network Selection for non-3GPP Access, Network Improvements for Machine-type Communications, Registration in Densely-populated area (RED), Enhanced Home NodeB / eNodeB continuation of Rel-9

Air interface framing is illustrated as in figure below. A super frame is made up of 4096 radio frames. Each radio frame is made up of 15 timeslots. A timeslot can be allocated to either UL (uplink) and DL (downlink) transmission.