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Broadcasting for Cellular Phone

III. Glossary

Cell broadcasting

The frequency is recycled so that the frequency sent by the base station should not interfere with each other by using a frequency different in each base station. The one that each base station is used a frequency different in each area and transmitted simultaneously is called Cell Broadcasting.

The transmission simultaneously using two or more frequencies different in each base station. It seems cell broadcasting is similar to the content of British Telecom applied patent.   As for the transmission simultaneously using a common one frequency to each base station, Adviser Group has acquired the patent in Japan, the United States, and the People’s Republic of China.

Multicast and broadcasting


The multicast is a method to reproduce information by routers.   When for instance, a lot of users try to see content of concert, the server that sends the content of the concert originally, one or two or more contents are sent.   The router delivered to the user who uses the multicast reproduces.   It forwards it to the other users by two or more contents.   As a result, the load to the server that sends the content of the concert originally doesn't grow.

In the wireless, an infinite user can receive at the same time, and information sent by the base station need not be reproduced.

What is the multicast in the wireless?  When transmitting to two or more specific users, it is sometimes called the multicast.   However, it is broadcasting as a transmission method.


Clipping Cast

Information is transmitted to the cellular phone little by little by using time when the use degree of the frequency is low such as nighttimes and early mornings.   Information shall be stored and accumulated by using memory of cellular phone and reproduced.   There are two methods, the method of the transmission to an individual cellular user, the other method to transmit by using the transmission simultaneously for a lot of cellular phone users.

Frequency band and frequency

As an explanation of the frequency of CDMA in Japan, the frequency band sometimes called a frequency.   For instance, the band of 1.228MHZ might be called one frequency.   However,  because information on the RGB signal etc. transmitted by an individual frequency, it is necessary to divide an individual frequency with the frequency band.  

Transmission simultaneously with control channel

The base station uses the control channel to check positions of the cellular phone in the area and the transmission simultaneously to these cellular phones is always done.   The transmission of information using the free time of this control channel is called a short message.

However, there is a limit in the transmission volume of data to the transmission simultaneously using the control channel.   For instance, the movie etc. cannot be transmitted.

To the transmission simultaneously using the traffic channel, the transmission volume of data is not limited.   The movie and the musical program, etc. can be transmitted.   

  In the transmission simultaneously with the traffic channel, using a frequency different in each base station is the British Telecom method
 (cell broadcasting.   The method to use a common one frequency to each base station is the content of the patent that Adviser Group acquired in Japan, the United States, and China.

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