Introduction to GSM

Course Duration: 1 day (appr. 8 hours)

Content Description:

 

Part 1 => Overview:

  • History and Future / Involvement of ETSI and CEPT / Where did GSM come from / The Future of GSM
  • The GSM Family / GSM-900 / GSM-1800 (DCS-1800) / PCS-1900 / R-GSM / …

 

0.5 hour

 

Part 2 => The GSM Network

  • The Cellular Network Approach
  • BSS / NSS / OSS / MS / Functions and Interconnection of BTS, BSC, TRAU, MSC/VLR, HLR, EIR, OMC and MS/SIM
  • The GSM-Interfaces / Air / Abis-, A- / Ater-, B-, C-, D-, E-, F-, G-Interfaces
  • The GSM Protocol Stack

 

2 hours

 

Part 3 => The GSM Air-Interface

  • TDMA / FDMA / Burst Types / Propagation Delay Control
  • The Frame Hierarchy / 51-Multiframe / 26-Multiframe / Logical Channel ó Physical Channels
  • GMSK Modulation / MSK ó GMSK / 200 kHz Channel Spacing
  • Data Transmission and Protection / TRAU-Frames / Channel Coding / Interleaving / DTX
  • Authentication and Ciphering

 

3 hours

 

Part 4 => GSM Services

  • Location Management
  • Speech Call (MOC and MTC within the BSS and NSS)
  • Signaling during an Active Connection

 

2 hours


Comprehension Test

0.5 hours