Time Division Multiple Access as an Alternative to Frequency Division Multiple Access in the New Telecommunication Technologies

Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Engineering - Communication Technology, Arab International University, course: Digital Communications, language: English, abstract: In the last decades, the increasing demands on communication systems have requiredmore development and improvement on the communicating technologies. While manyscientists agree that the classical frequency division multiple access technique forcommunicating is a de-facto standard, new generations of communications devicesrequire more efficient techniques such as the time division multiple access technology.This paper identifies the methods of using time division multiple access as analternative to the original frequency division transmission technique. The paperclarifies the principle of multiple access technologies, and compares the old methodwith the newest one. This study points out the ways of replacing the frequency divisionwith the time division multiple access, and identifies the main obstacles that might befaced.