GSM Seminar
Overview Global System Mobiles (GSM) is in widespread use today. This seminar is designed to give an outline of the general flavour of GSM. Duration: ½ Day
Who will benefit?
Anyone who needs to know more about GSM.
Prerequisites
None
By the end of the course delegates will be able to describe:
• What GSM is • The architecture of the GSM Network • The GSM protocol stack
Course Content
Introduction		GSM signalling protocol structure
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 Station Subsystem. Base Transceiver Station (BTS). Base Station Controller (BSC). Network Subsystem. Mobile Services Switching Centre (MSC). Home Location Register (HLR). Visitor Location Register (VLR). Equipment Identity Register (EIR). Visitor Location Register (VLR). Authentication Centre (AuC).		Um, Abis and A interfaces. Radio Resources management. Mobility management. Connection management. Radio Link Aspects Bands. Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA). Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). Traffic channels. Control channels. Speech coding. Channel coding and modulation. Multipath equalisation. Frequency hopping.