UMTS – Applications

Conversational Class applications

· Circuit switched voice service.
Similar to GSM using 24.008 protocol and AMR speech coding.

· Packet Switched Voiced Service
Like Voice over IP service. AMR encoding used for speech coding.

Streaming Class applications

• Streaming / Download (Video, Audio)
• Videoconferences
  Video and audio streaming as mentioned above using buffering mechanisms at the receiver to compensate for delay in the bearer service.

Interactive Class applications

· Fast Internet / Intranet.
· Mobile E-Commerce (M-Commerce)
· Remote Login

Here the overall service is determined by the request response delay.

Background Class applications

Any non –real time applications like

• Multimedia-Messaging, E-Mail
  
• FTP Access
  
• Mobile Entertainment (Games)

Here Error-free is the criteria with delay insentivity.