What is HSUPA?

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What is HSUPA?

HSUPA stands for High Speed Uplink Packet Access and describes an extremely efficient procedure for sending data in a great performance way through UMTS devices. HSUPA enables high-speed symmetrical data communications such as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and interactive multimedia by better data rates and shorter delay. The suitable procedure for the receiving is called HSDPA, briefly High Speed Downlink Packet Access. Both procedures resemble each other technically and by the employme

nt of special modulation procedures allow a higher extent of utilization of the net infrastructure. The power spectrum of the UMTS networks is extended at relatively small expenditure. Improved intensive data services can be offered. Thus HSUPA opens further areas for innovations and new business possibilities.

The two basic target groups

When designing new mobile services and applications, designers need to understand the two basic types of target groups: The business traveler group and the urban mobile culture group. Consultants and freelancer are examples of business travelers. They make themselves available to their job at all hours of the day.


Range of End-to-End Delay (milliseconds)

Students, teenager and young professionels are examples of participants to the urban mobile culture. They make themselves available to their personal relationships.
Both groups are interested in premium services and prefere those operators who will set up earlier to take advantage of new innovations such as real-time encryption, life-like games and accurate speech interfaces.

Advantages and introduction of HSUPA

HSUPA connects the advantages of UMTS - a wide net cover in the final development and an application type in driving vehicles, with the advantages of radio-based local networks (WLANs - for Wireless local area network). WLANs permit inexpensive broadband InterNet. HSUPA offers also broadband InterNet, comparably with a WLAN from the year 2002 and HSUPA should be also inexpensive, because it is based on software. No new infrastructure must be developed by the mobile network carriers. The infrastructure must be updated "only" with new software. Software can be produced today also in developing countries such as India and software necessarily neither storekeeping nor complex logistics. If there is sufficient offerer, HSUPA technology should be cheap. The first offerers can keep the prices still somewhat high with however position noticing meals, but after a time of to two years HSUPA for most persons will probably be affordable.

The characteristics of HSUPA were specified by the 3GPP (3rd generation Partnership Project ) in a series of specifications, which admits 6 as release is. In release 6 it was specified that HSUPA a rate of 5,76 MBit/s has theoretical data. Up-to-date there are demonstrations of HSUPA with ranges of 1,4 MBit/s on fairs.
By HSUPA also the connection establishment and signal running times sink. The latter particularly improves the interaction ability with rapid on-line plays. Until for Technikfreaks first HSUPA data cards is offered for the use in Notebooks, must be waited presumably still until 2007.

If then in 2007 or late HSUPA on broad user shank one releases, new scenarios of mobile communication are present. We can settle more tasks, remain more with friends and business partners in contact, work harder and connect private and commercial world more closely. That is altogether good for increased productivity, but not necessarily for a healthy mental condition. An example of the new possibilities is simultaneous participation in a video conference and an on-line play during a travel in the high-speed train. The message collection will achieve technically a higher quality, since with HSUPA additional possibilities for the video transmission are common.

Last Updated ( Monday, 28 August 2006 )