Talk:Cellular network

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    Good article. Hope you don't mind some of my minor alterations. Often wondered how exactly call transfer between cells worked! Markalex 09:01, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    thanks. Actually I'm keen to get alterations in.. It took me a while to write it and at some point you stop being able to see your own mistakes, so I put it up to get other people to comment.. Mozzerati 09:14, 2004 Jun 19 (UTC)

    The following things could valuably be added to this article:

    • cell coverage diagrams from a network planning tool, ideally like the following
      • a mountain area
      • a city area.
      • a flat plane area (show best serving cell, not signal strength)
    • A historical discussion
    • references to text books

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    [edit] Cellular telephony

    I have copied some text away from the mobile phone page and put it here as it is more relevant. I havent yet done a check on redundancy with the rest of the article - I'm sure it could be boiled down further, but that is best done on this page rather than the main mobile phone one in my view

    ChrisUK 13:29, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

    [edit] Punctuation: Movement from cell to cell and handover section

    There's a full stop (period) missing from the last sentence in the first paragraph in this section. I'm not sure whether it's missing any text as well. It's been that way since the article was created. Can someone take a look and fix please?

    Gimboid13 05:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

    Well it's been a while so I think I'll just wing it and add the thing myself. Why not be bold? Gimboid13 08:08, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex

    A mention of OFDM may be appropriate in the last paragraph of the CELLULAR TELEPHONY section. OFDM is an established modulation standard, and well suited for wireless. It may be rolled out for 4G cell phones and facilitate broadband features like video. It's finding many uses in wireless applications like the wireless LAN IEEE (802.11x), IEEE 802.15, and the higher-powered WiMax (IEEE 802.16), though WiMax is not technically "cellular" per se. OFDM offers enhanced capabilities in mitigating multipath fading and its spectral efficiency renders a broader bandwidth. OFDMA, VOFDM (Vector OFDM), SOFDMA are variants of this modulation scheme.

    To the the originator and contributors: Good article. Thanks.


    DonL 20:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Sounds like a textbook

    This article sounds like a textbook chapter on cellular networks, using taxi radio systems as an illustrative example. This really needs to be rewritten, as I am not sure if the examples can be cut out without losing some of the meaning in the article.

    -Agreed. First person usage and simplified examples seem out of place. It reads as though it was ripped from a textbook. Can anyone verify? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.176.244.146 (talk) 18:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Why is this in here?

    Why is this sentance in there...like mentioned above sounds like someones copied straight from a text book. Don't think it really need to be in there!

    "In the case of the primitive taxi system that we are studying, handovers won't really be implemented. The taxi driver just moves from one frequency to another as needed. If a specific communication gets interrupted due to a loss of a signal then the taxi driver asks the controller to repeat the message. If one single taxi driver misses a particular broadcast message (e.g. a request for drivers in a particular area), the others will respond instead. If nobody responds, the operator keeps repeating the request."

    —Preceding unsigned comment added by TruCido (talk • contribs) 17.24, June 20, 2007

    [edit] Picture is misleading

    The picture is a little misleading - it makes the impression that the cell tower (aka base station) is in the middle of the cell - in fact, it's in the corner of the cell. See here for more info. Tauntz (talk) 16:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Picture is misleading...not really

    You can lay out the hexagonal grid either as corner-excited or center-excited. The center-excited geometry is more common in US literature. NX7U (talk) 20:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)