Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad
W.L. Weiss Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering &
Director;  Center for Information & Communications Technology Research
(CICTR)
Emaill Address: mkavehrad@psu.edu
Website: http://cictr.ee.psu.edu/

ABSTRACT

The wireless telecommunications industry is now planning deployment of a third-generation of mobile systems in the first decade of the new millennium. This evolution from second-generation systems is driven by the need for greater bandwidth in anticipation of growing demand for voice services and of an emerging market for broadband multimedia services. The global growth of interest in the Internet and in digitized audio and video, coupled with a growing high-bandwidth wired infrastructure for last-mile communications, should lead to a rapidly expanding market for multimedia services. For this reason, although there are currently no applications with great mass-market appeal that require broadband mobile access, the popularity of multimedia services should eventually affect the market for wireless communications. In particular, visually based services, such as video conference, medical emergency consultation, wireless web access, and remote site surveys, might dominate future services offered to subscribers in future generations of mobile systems.