Cell Broadcast

Cell Broadcast

Cell Broadcast (CB) messaging is a mobile technology feature defined by the ETSI’s GSM committee and is part of the GSM standard. It is also known as Short Message Service - Cell Broadcast (SMS-CB).Cell Broadcast is designed for simultaneous delivery of messages to multiple users in a specified area. Whereas the Short Message Service - Point to Point (SMS-PP) is a one-to-one and one-to-a-few service, Cell Broadcast is a one-to-many geographically focused messaging service.Cell Broadcast messaging is also supported by UMTS, as defined by 3GPP.

Cell Broadcast messaging was technologically demonstrated in Paris for the first time, in 1997. Some mobile operators use Cell Broadcast for communicating the area code of the antenna cell to the mobile user (via channel 050), for nationwide or citywide alerting, weather reports, mass messaging, location based news, etc. Not all operators have the Cell Broadcast messaging function activated in their network yet, and many handsets do not have the capability to support cell broadcast.

Cell Broadcast is a technology that allows a text or binary message to be defined and distributed to all mobile terminals connected to a set of cells. Whereas SMS messages are sent point-to-point, Cell Broadcast messages are sent point-to-area. This means that one Cell Broadcast message can reach a huge number of terminalsa at once. In other words, Cell Broadcast messages are directed to radio cells, rather than to a specific terminal. A Cell Broadcast message is an unconfirmed push service, meaning that the originator of the message does not know who has received the message, allowing for services based on anonymity. Mobile telephone user manuals describe how the user can switch the receiving of Cell Broadcast messages on or off.

Cell Broadcast messaging has a number of features that make it particularly appropriate for emergency purposes:
* It is not as affected by traffic load; therefore, it may be usable during a disaster when load spikes tend to crash networks, as the 7 July 2005 London bombings showed. Another example was during the Tsunami catastrophe in Asia. Dialog GSM, an operator in Sri Lanka was able to provide ongoing emergency information to its subscribers, to warn of incoming waves, to give news updates, to direct people to supply and distribution centres, and even to arrange donation collections using Celltick's Cell Broadcast Center, based on Cell Broadcast Technology.

Cell broadcast is widely deployed since year 2008. In Europe, most handsets do have cell broadcast capability, and the major European operators have deployed the technology in their networks.

Cell Broadcast is a mobile technology that allows messages (up to 15 pages of up to 93 characters) to be broadcast to all mobile handsets and similar devices within a designated geographical area. The broadcast range can be varied, from a single cell to the entire network.

Technology

Cell Broadcast messages originate from Nokia and Samsung. CBEs are usually connected to a Content Casting Center (CCC), which is in turn connected to the Cell Broadcast Centre. Cell Broadcast messages are then sent from the Cell Broadcast Centres to the cells, in accordance with the CBS's coverage requirements. Advanced infrastructures make use of GIS-based interfaces for definition of the used areas.

A Cell Broadcast message page comprises 82 octets, which, using the default character set, equates to 93 characters. Up to 15 of these pages may be concatenated to form a Cell Broadcast message. Each page of such a CB message will have the same message identifier (indicating the source of the message), and the same serial number. Using this information, the mobile telephone is able to identify and ignore broadcasts of already received messages.

Cell Broadcast doesn't use the frequency space reserved for call setup, calls and data but a separate specially defined area. This area is divided into 65.000 channels, the channels from 0 to 999 can be switched on by the terminal user, from 999 to 65.000 can only be switched on via OTA (Over The Air Activation) but all channels can be switched off by the user.

Footnotes

* Note a: A "terminal" in this context is a "mobile terminal" or any device (usually a mobile telephone) which can receive voice or data via the GSM network.

External links

* [http://www.cellbroadcastforum.org/ CBF - Cell Broadcast Forum]
* [http://www.backstream.com CCC - BackStream Content Casting Center]
* [http://www.one2many.eu/ CBC - one2many Cell Broadcast Center; formerly Acision's CBC]
* [http://cell-broadcast.blogspot.com/ Cell Broadcast Citizen Alert Blog]
* [http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2007/05/06/cell-broadcast/ Cell Broadcast in a nutshell]
* [http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/23_series/23.041/23041-700.zip 3GPP Specification 23.041 V7.0.0 (2006-03)]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Cell-Broadcast — BTS (Base Transceiver Station). Cell Broadcast oder Cell Broadcasting (kurz CB) ist ein Mobilfunkdienst zum Versenden von Kurzmitteilungen Im Gegensatz zur SMS, bei der die Nachricht nur an ein bestimmtes Handy gerichtet ist, wird eine CB… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Cell Broadcast — BTS (Base Transceiver Station). Cell Broadcast oder Cell Broadcasting (kurz CB) ist ein Mobilfunkdienst zum Versenden von Kurzmitteilungen. Im Gegensatz zur normalen SMS, bei der die Nachricht nur an ein bestimmtes Handy gerichtet ist, wird eine… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Cell Broadcast — BTS (Base Transceiver Station). La diffusion cellulaire (Cell Broadcast), est une technique qui permet d envoyer le même message à tous les abonnés (inscrits à ce service) à l intérieur d une zone géographique. Normalement, elle est utilisée pour …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Cell Broadcast — auch Short Message Service Cell Broadcast (SMSCB) genannt. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Technik, um allen Endgeräten innerhalb eines bestimmten Gebietes (Zelle, LA, Netz) Textnachrichten zu senden. Es funktioniert im Prinzip wie Videotext im… …   Acronyms

  • Cell Broadcast — auch Short Message Service Cell Broadcast ( SMSCB) genannt. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Technik, um allen Endgeräten innerhalb eines bestimmten Gebietes (Zelle, LA, Netz) Textnachrichten zu senden. Es funktioniert im Prinzip wie Videotext im… …   Acronyms von A bis Z

  • Interactive Cell Broadcast (ICB) — это медиа канал, вещающий в сетях операторов мобильной сотовой связи, и позволяющий проводить интерактивные, информационные, маркетинговые, развлекательные мероприятия. Особенностью данного медиа канала, в отличие от [SMS] рассылок, является,… …   Википедия

  • Cell Broadcasting — BTS (Base Transceiver Station). Cell Broadcast oder Cell Broadcasting (kurz CB) ist ein Mobilfunkdienst zum Versenden von Kurzmitteilungen Im Gegensatz zur SMS, bei der die Nachricht nur an ein bestimmtes Handy gerichtet ist, wird eine CB… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Broadcast/Multicast Control — The Broadcast/Multicast control (BMC) is a sublayer of layer 2 protocol of Radio Interface Protocol Architecture as per BMC STD. It exists in the user plan only. It is located above the Radio Link Control (RLC), a layer 2 responsible for mapping… …   Wikipedia

  • Cell (novel) — Cell   …   Wikipedia

  • Broadcast syndication — In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”