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The text is a transcript of a video that explains how cell phone networks work and how they deal with interference. It covers the different generations of technology, from 1G to 5G, and how they use different methods to encode data on radio waves and share the available frequencies. It also discusses the challenges of intercell interference, especially with 5G, and how engineers are trying to solve them.
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1. Cell phones are essentially complicated radios that send and receive radio waves.
2. Radio waves have two key properties: amplitude and frequency.
3. Cell phones use a slice of the radio frequency spectrum in the 800 to 4,000 megahertz range.
4. The width of the band of frequencies used for a single phone or network is called bandwidth.
5. Interference occurs when radio waves from different phones overlap and become garbled.
6. Engineers have developed techniques to reduce interference, such as frequency domain multiple access (FDMA).
7. FDMA allocates different frequency bands to different phones to prevent interference.
8. Time division multiple access (TDMA) allows phones to use the same frequency band, but at different times.
9. Code division multiple access (CDMA) allows phones to use the same frequency band, but with different codes to distinguish between signals.
10. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chops up a single band into small divisions called carriers to reduce interference.
11. 4G networks use OFDM to enable wide bands of frequencies for sending more data.
12. Intercell interference (ICI) occurs when signals from different cell towers interfere with each other.
13. ICI is more likely to occur at the edge of two cells using the same frequencies.
14. Engineers have developed techniques to reduce ICI, such as temporarily letting a tower drop out and creating a combined larger cell.
15. 5G networks use ultra-dense networks consisting of lots of smaller cells, which can increase ICI.
16. Engineers are developing techniques to expand bandwidth without creating loads of interference in 5G networks.