Evaluation of Effect of Data Throughput Evolution on Mobile Station Performance

The next generation of wireless phones promises to change consumers services habits - video streaming, video conferencing, DVB-H etc. will be used practically anytime and anywhere in the world. However, it has been observed that the CPU load and the memory usage is increasing significantly with the increasing data rate and at some point the need for higher processing power and memory is quite evident to support higher data rate. This paper investigates the costs for implementation of higher data rate in mobile station in terms of processing power and memory usage.