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air interface

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The specification for the radio transmission between base station and mobile units in a cellular network. It defines frequency, channel bandwidth, modulation scheme (CDMA, TDMA, etc.) and other attributes. The air interface is the wireless counterpart of the physical layer in the OSI model.


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These include 3G air interface standards IMT-FT: DECT; IMT-SC: TDMA; IMT-DS: Wideband CDMA; IMT-MC: CDMA 2000; and IMT-TC: TD-CDMA.
* Detection of lost and delayed messages from the air interface and RAN network with time stamped messages;
 
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