The creation of standards for global mobile communication: GSM and UMTS standardization from 1982 to 2000

Hillebrand, Friedhelm

doi:10.1109/mwc.2013.6664470

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“…This includes explanatory and educational material on the design of the GSM network, and accounts of the history of SMS such as those found in Acker (2014) and Hillebrand (2010). In addition to academic work, technical overviews of the architectures developed in various GSM phases were consulted, as well as a particularly thorough account of the standards-setting process (Hillebrand, Rosenbrock, & Hauser, 2013) sponsored by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). I also examined the ETSI standards database (http://www.etsi.org/standards), which contains the full text of all GSM standards.…”

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“…With several countries in Asia and the Middle East becoming significant GSM users, provision for Unicode support was added to GSM in 1996 (Hillebrand et al, 2013). Non-Latin alphabets were accommodated using a 16-bit Unicode character set.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since each character now required double the number of bits to encode, messages in non-Latin alphabets are restricted to 70 characters. This problem is partially ameliorated by SMS concatenation standards, which make it possible to send a message over several SMSs (Hillebrand et al, 2013).…”

Section: Message Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Platform Studies Approach to the Role of Technology in the ICTD Ecosystem: The SMS in m4d Interventions

Loudon

2016

Information Technology for Development

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We have good evidence-not least from widespread adoption-that mobile communications can improve the lives of the poor. Building on this success, interventions using mobile technology to tackle development problems have become common in ICT4D. The short message service (SMS), which works on even basic phones, is a popular platform for mobiles for development (m4d) apps and services. This paper documents the historical origins and technical characteristics of SMS as a platform for m4d interventions, demonstrating how inherent technological rigidities in the platform combine with creative adaptation, appropriation and re-use to produce a particular set of affordances and constraints. I argue that optimism about the potential for new technologies to contribute to development should be tempered by awareness that the developing world is seldom the intended audience of technology development. Approaches from the social construction of technology-infrastructure studies and platform studiescontribute to a holistic and historicized understanding of the role of technology in the information and communication technology ecosystem.

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2016

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“…The GSM association estimates that 90% of the global mobile market adopts the GSM standard. The communication distance is very long [4]. The information interchange is easy and low-cost.…”

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A Novel Remote Monitoring and Control System Based on GSM for Home Security

Li¹,

Cao²,

Duan³

et al. 2015

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-A powerful and cost effective home security system based on GSM communication network and wireless communication module CC1100 is proposed for anti-theft, fireproofing, waterproofing, anti-gas leak and remote appliance control. The system uses STC89C516 microcontroller as the core and real-timely detects the home environment through a variety of sensors. The dual detections are utilized to reduce the false alarm rate and enhance system reliability and interference immunity. The wireless data transmission is adopted between the main controller and sensor nodes, which does not require a lot of wiring. The bidirection communication between the main controller and the mobile terminal is realized by the GSM networks. Once detecting suspicious activities, the system sends an alarm message to the host's mobile phone. The user can remotely query the home security status and control the home appliance by the GSM module. The communication is assured within the GSM coverage area, and the distance is unlimited. The GSM short message alarm overcomes the hidden troubles of vulnerable damage and no alarm when calling in the fixed telephone dialing. The interaction interface is optimized. The user can modify the passwords, change the target phone number, alter the upper and lower limits of alarm, query the alarm recording and deploy/cancel defense via the LCD and keyboard. The buttons are installed for help in case of emergencies. The test results show that the system can real-timely monitor and remotely query the home environment, control the appliances and initiatively send alarm messages in case of accidents. The system possesses full function, high reliability, low false alarm rate, strong expansion, friendly user interface and low cost. The application space is very broad.

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“…In this paper, we develop a multi-tier real-time patient monitoring system architecture that integrates medical sensors, a sensor network, electronic patient records and the Short Message Service (SMS) [15] as a data transfer mechanism to allow remote monitoring of patient physiological status in the homecare conditions and to alert medical personnel when life-threatening events occur. SMS is a flexible and pervasive messaging technology which is almost universally accessible to anyone possessing a mobile telephone of second generation or later lineage.…”

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SMS-Based Medical Diagnostic Telemetry Data Transmission Protocol for Medical Sensors

Townsend

Abawajy

Kim

2011

Sensors

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People with special medical monitoring needs can, these days, be sent home and remotely monitored through the use of data logging medical sensors and a transmission base-station. While this can improve quality of life by allowing the patient to spend most of their time at home, most current technologies rely on hardwired landline technology or expensive mobile data transmissions to transmit data to a medical facility. The aim of this paper is to investigate and develop an approach to increase the freedom of a monitored patient and decrease costs by utilising mobile technologies and SMS messaging to transmit data from patient to medico. To this end, we evaluated the capabilities of SMS and propose a generic communications protocol which can work within the constraints of the SMS format, but provide the necessary redundancy and robustness to be used for the transmission of non-critical medical telemetry from data logging medical sensors.

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The creation of standards for global mobile communication: GSM and UMTS standardization from 1982 to 2000

Cited by 37 publications

References 5 publications

A Platform Studies Approach to the Role of Technology in the ICTD Ecosystem: The SMS in m4d Interventions

A Platform Studies Approach to the Role of Technology in the ICTD Ecosystem: The SMS in m4d Interventions

A Novel Remote Monitoring and Control System Based on GSM for Home Security

SMS-Based Medical Diagnostic Telemetry Data Transmission Protocol for Medical Sensors

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