Mobile Technologies Introductory

Overview This course will cover why mobile telephones have great market penetration and are therefore seen as the ideal way of providing Internet access for those who can't afford to have PC access or need the mobility of a phone WAP make this possible. Delegates will understand what the key Mobile technologies are, how they relate to each other, what the future holds, what the Mobile market is doing, and appreciate the Mobile market in general.A quick tour of the Bluetooth environment will be given and the changes it may have on existing network infrastructures. An overview of GSM will be given. GPRS is a new service providing packet radio access for GSM and TDMA users and is seen as an important step towards 3G migrations. Finally 3G and UMTS migration will be examined and the affect it will have in the future. Duration - 2 Days.

Who will benefit

Anyone who requires information on Mobile Technologies.

Prerequisites

None.

By the end of the course delegates will be able to describe:

By the end of the course delegates will be able to describe: • What WAP, Bluetooth, GSM, GPRS and UMTS are • The relationships between the above technologies • The advantages/disadvantages of the above technologies • The need for mobile technologies • The mobile market direction • The forward evolutionary possibilities of the mobile Market

Course Content

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Wireless access. What is WAP? Standards and WAP. The WAP Forum. WAP Protocol stack. WAE. WSP. WTP. WTLS. WDP. Internet architecture. WAP Gateways. WAP Servers. WAP Browsers. WAP Phones. PALM's. Notebooks. PDA's. Is WAP the future? What WAP means for ISPs. What WAP means for content Providers? What WAP means for Internet developers. WML and WML Script. 3G 1G. 2G. 2G+. EDGE. HSCSD. CDMA. 3GPP. GSM History of GSM. Analogue networks. Digital networks. PCS1900. GSM services. Telephony. Digital encoding. Data rates. Group 3 fax. SMS. Supplementary services. GSM architecture. Mobile station. Mobile Equipment (ME). Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). Base Transceiver Station (BTS). Base Station Controller (BSC). Mobile Services Switching Centre (MSC). Home Location Register (HLR). Visitor Location Register (VLR). Equipment Identity Register (EIR). Visitor Location register (VLR). Authentication Centre (AuC). FDMA. TDMA. Traffic channels. Control channels. Speech coding. Channel coding and modulation. Multipath equalisation. Frequency hopping. GSM signalling protocol structure. Um, Abis and A interfaces. Radio Resources management. Mobility management. Connection management. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Circuit switched data. SMS. What is GPRS? GPRS applications. GPRS Class A, B and C terminals. GPRS architecture. Overlaying onto GSM networks. Modifications to GSM network elements required for GPRS. Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN). Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN). Routing and data transfer. GPRS network Protocol Stack. Gb, Gn and Gi interfaces. MS, BSS, SGSN and GGSN protocol stacks. GTP. MAP. Bluetooth What is Bluetooth? How does Bluetooth work? Access speeds. Frequencies. Industry Support. Specifications. Bluetooth Protocol stack. JINI. WAP. SDP. TCP/IP. RFCOMM. L2CAP. Link Manager. HCI. ACL. SCO. Baseband. Bluetooth Radio. Bluetooth applications. UMTS What is UMTS? Why UMTS? When UMTS? How UMTS? UMTS Architecture. Radio Access network (RAN). Node B (BTS). Radio Network Controllers. Iub, Iur and Iu interfaces. Iu circuit switched. Iu packet switched. The Core Network. Charging gateway function. Protocol layers. GMM. NBAP. PDCP. RLC. MAC. RRC. RANAP. RNSAP.