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GPRS Operations

305pp, over 150 illustrations

• GPRS in the context of 3G. The GPRS sub-network and the internet - dynamic and static addresses. GPRS roaming.
• What is a TBF - the core concept of GPRS.
• The air interface. Radio channels. Physical and logical channels in the 51 and 52 frame multiframes. GPRS with and without a PBCCH.
• MAC procedures
- accessing services when a PBCCH is present - attach, PDP context activation, data transfer.
- accessing services when a PBCCH is not present - attach, PDP context activation, data transfer.
• The protocol stack an introductory description.
• GPRS mobile station types. QoS, multislot capabilities, invalid and valid allocations.
• The physical layer. PLMN and cell selection. GPRS Cell reselection in the MM standby and ready conditions, problems when no PBCCH is used. DRX . Measurements, measurement reporting. Paging for NMO 1-3. When paging messages may be missed. Transmit power control, timing advance control. Access control. Contention resolution. Channel encoding. Frequency hopping.
• RLC/MAC layer. Segmentaion. Headers, registers and operating parameters. Flow control for acknowledged and unacknowledged modes. The conditions for acknowledged mode. RLC/MAC timers in the network and MS.
• LLC Layer. Encryption. Headers, registers and operating parameters. Flow control for acknowledged and unacknowledged modes. The conditions for acknowledged mode. LLC interaction with SNDCP, GMM and RLC layers.
• GMM Layer. GMM states. Attach, detach. Constructing the TLLI. RA updating. Cell updating. Paging procedures. Identification. Authentication and ciphering procedures.
• SM Layer. PDP context activation, modification, deactivation. Interactions with the network, GMM and SNDCP layers. Managing multiple contexts.
• SNDCP Layer. Buffering, segementaion, compression, XID exchanges, acknowledged and unacknowledged mode requests to the LLC layer. Interactions with the SM, network and LLC layers.
• GMSK and EDGE. Modulation schemes for GPRS and EGPRS. Customer data rates.
• INDEX

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The GSM Air Interface

204pp, over 100 illustrations

• GSM Spectrum allocation for PGSM, EGSM, GSM1800, GSM1900. Radio channels and radio channel numbering - ARFCN. The spectrum and radio channel constraints of GSM, the 200kHz radio channel. Optimising the radio channel, GMSK and voice encoding. The radio channel bit rate and the TCH information bit rate. The TCH bit rate after channel encoding and Um framing. The number of TCH's which will fit into the bit rate of the radio channel. Developments in raising the TCH bit rate - channel encoding leading to the CS 14.4kb/s TCH. EDGE. PDCH bit rates for GPRS, types of channel encoding.Classifying the 8 TCH's of the Radio Channel - Numbering them -TN0-7, the TDMA structure of GSM.
• The Physical channel. Relationship of the 'burst' and TN. The period of the Um burst. The guard period. The Um frame period. Numbering of the frames. Structures of the normal, access, dummy and SCH/FCCH bursts. The purpose of the TSC. How the guard period defines the maximum radius of the GSM cell.
• CS Logical channels. The importance of the BCCH carrier. The definition of the logical channel. Common channels and dedicated channels. The information content and functions of the FCCH, SCH, BCCH, EBCH, NCH, CCCH, PCH, AGCH, RACH, SDCCH, SACCH. Types of TCH. The FACCH. Structures of the CS logical channels on the BCCH carrier (and non-BCCH carriers) The difficulty of representing the structures. 'Abstractions' used in the GSM specifications and textbooks.
The combined and non-combined CCH structures. The 51-frame control channel multiframe and the 26-frame TCH multiframe. Superframes and Hyperframes. Logical control channels 4 burst structure. Logical channel bit-rates. The RACH logical channel; its position in the combined and non-combined CCCH structure. The SDCCH/4 and SDCCH/8 configurations and the SACCH 102 frame multiframe. Idle frames. How the MS uses these to confirm measurements of neighbour cells. The MS search mechanism when measuring neighbour cells. The Paging Channel, how the MS selects a CCCH Group and how it selects a paging channel within that group.
• GPRS logical channel structures in the 51-frame multiframe, the PRACH, PCCCH, PAGCH, PPCH, on the BCCH carrier. The 52-frame multiframe structure of PDCH's, PACCH, PDTCH combined with the 51-frame multiframe BCCH carrier. GPRS logical channel structures in the 52-frame multiframe, the PBCCH channel, the PCCCH, PPCH, PRACH, PAGCH, PTCCH, PDTCH, PACCH and idle frames. The functions of the GPRS logical channels.
• System Information, SI-1, 2, 2bis, 2ter, 3, 4, 5, 5bis, 5ter, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13. Information and control messages on the BCCH channel and SACCH for CS and GPRS working. Packet System Information, the presence of the PBCCH, SI-3, SI-4, (SI-15), PSI-1, 2, 3, 3bis, 4, 5, 13 on the PBCCH and PACCH.
• Operating Procedures GPRS (note that these GPRS operations overviews complete GPRS on this course. Hereafter only CS operations are considered. GPRS operations are covered in detail in the course 'GPRS OPERATIONS') GPRS Attach, authentication and encryption overview UL PDP context activation overview DL PDP context activation overview TBF, the function of USF, TFI, TLLI, PTMSI overview GPRS operations arrow diagrams overview Types of cell re-selection/measurement reporting/handovers used in GPRS. Methods of power control and TA control.
• Operating Procedures CS PLMN selection for CS and GPRS operations. Cell selection for CS and GPRS operations - the C1 criterion. Cell reselection for CS operations, the C2 criterion. The parameters for cell selection and reselection. Cell reselection in GPRS operations, The necessary conditions for GPRS cell reselection to be in operation. The criteria C1, C31 and c32 and the parameters controlling these criteria. Accessing the network CS Channel request and immediate assignment detailed procedures. Timing Advance. Authentication and encryption in the home and foreign PLMN's. LA updating procedures. IMSI Attach/detach procedures. MO telephone call set up overview MT telephone call set up overview. MO SMS set up procedure overview. MT SMS set up procedure overview. VBS and CBCH operations overview VGCS operations overview. CS Measurement Reports and Power Control The parameters used and methods of measuring in the idle and active conditions. The effect of DTX on measurements. The relationship between BA_Lists on the BCCH and SACCH and the reported frequency. CS Handovers Types of handover, network parameters for imperative handovers, RXQUAL, RXLEVEL, IH, TAH. Network parameters for power budget handovers. Congestion relief handovers and directed retry handovers.
• Detailed CS RR Information The LAI, MCC, MNC, LAI, CI, CGI. BSIC, NCC, BCC. Overcoming the limited BSIC allocation - an examination of the BSIC allocation in the 4/12-cell cluster and how this is now superseded with the problems that arise. How the MS discriminates between BCCH carriers. 'Borrowing' foreign NCC's. RACH Control The parameters of RACH control and how they are used. Access Classes The parameters to control access to a cell and the procedures used. NCC permitted The use of this function at international borders and to increase the BSIC allocation inside a country.
• Configuring the CCCH's Putting CCCH's on TNs other than BCCH TN0. Configuration parameters. Configuration of the CCCH's into PCH and AGCH. The parameters and their application. How the MS selects a CCCH and PCH. DRX. Paging modes, Paging types. Neighbour Cell Lists on the BCCH and SACCH. The BA bit-map. BA_IND, EXT_IND. How the MS uses the lists. Radio Link Time-out The operation and parameters of RLT on the UL and DL DTX The operation of DTX - why it is used. SACCH bursts and SID bursts. The significance of RXLEV_SUB and RXQUAL_SUB in measurement reports. PWRC When it should be used. Its significance when hopping into the BCCH carrier.
• The CS Protocol Layers and message flow. Protocol layers Functions of the L1 physical, L2-LAPDm and L3 RR, MM, CM and 'application' layers The A-bis and A interfaces. Detailed message flow for registration, authentication, encryption, TMSI reallocation, MO telephone call set-up, and MT telephone call set-up. Detailed arrow diagrams. Detailed message flow for handover with arrow diagrams. Typical Layer 3 message structures. L2 -LAPDm detailed functions, frame flow, timers, and frame types. Connection and Connectionless communication.
• Frequency Hopping Its advantages, the effect of Rayleigh fading, the interference averaging effect. Baseband and Synthesiser hopping. The constraints on hopping into BCCH control channels. The constraints on hopping into BCCH traffic channels when hopping over more frequencies than there are TRX's. Cyclic and PR hopping. How the MS uses the parameters CA, MA, HSN, TSC, MAIO. How hopping affects the BER and FER.
• Channel Encoding and interleaving Why it is done. How it is done. The block diagrams (not detailed descriptions) of FEC and block encoding. Encoding and interleaving the TCH/FS Encoding and interleaving the TCH/Data Encoding and interleaving control channels Encoding and interleaving the FACCH
• INDEX

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3G UMTS Operations

200pp, over 90 illustrations with colour!

Course CONTENTS

Introduction Second Generation 2.5 G Mobile Systems Third Generation 3G Mobile Systems Characteristics of the UMTS System The UMTS Network 1. UMTS Spectrum allocations. 2. FDD Physical Channels 3. Types of Physical, Transport & logical Channels 3.1. Physical Channels 3.2. Transport Channels 3.3. Logical Channels 3.4 Mapping of Logical - Transport - Physical Channels.
4. CDMA in FDD UMTS 4.1. A Simple Appreciation of OVSF Coding 4.2 UMTS OVSF Code Tree 4.3. How OVSF Codes are allocated 4.4 How Codes are used to Separate UE using the same cell and to Separate Cells (which may be using the same OVSF codes) 5. Combining Downlink Physical Channels 25.213.

6. Physical Channels Structure on the Uu 2

6.1. Downlink Common Physical Channels PSCH Primary Synchronisation Channel SSCH Secondary Synchronisation Channel CPICH Common Pilot Channel P-CCPCH Primary Common Control Physical Channel S-CCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel AICH (Access) Acquisition Indicator Channel AP-AICH Access Preamble-Acquisition Indicator Channel CD/CA-ICH Collision Detection/Channel Allocation Indicator Channel PICH Paging Indicator Channel CSICH Common Packet Channel Status Indicator Channel 6.2. PRACH Uplink Common Physical Random Access Channel 6.3. PCPCH Uplink Physical Common Packet Channel 6.4. DPCH Dedicated Physical Channels.

7. An Introduction to UMTS Procedures

7.1. Synchronising to the network 7.2. System Information 7.3. Accessing the UMTS network Services - an introduction 7.4. MT Telephone Call - an introduction 7.5. Packet Switched Data Communications- an introduction
8. An Introduction to the UTRA - UMTS Radio Access Network Protocol Stack
8.1. Layer 1 the Physical Layer 8.2 Layer 2 the MAC - medium access control layer The Transport Channel 8.3 layer 2 the RLC - Radio Link Control Layer 25.322 8.4 Layer 2 PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol Layer 25.323 8.5 Layer 2 BMC Broadcast/Multicast Control 25.324
8.6 Layer 3 Radio Resource Control 8.7. Downlink Signal Processing 8.8 Uplink Signal Processing.

9. The UMTS Physical Layer

9.1. L1 processing of the downlink transport channel 25.212 9.2. PLMN Selection 9.3. Cell Selection 9.4 Camped on Activities 9.5 Conditions for Cell Re-selection 9.5.1. Squal conditional measurement when HCS is not used 9.5.2. Squal conditional measurement when HCS is used 9.5.3. Fast- moving UE cell reselection rules 9.6. Cell Re-Selection Criteria. 9.7. Cell Access Restrictions 9.8. RRC Connected Mode Cell Reselection 9.9. Discontinuous Reception, DRX, and Paging. 9.10. Measurements in CELL_DCH State for Handovers 9.10.1. UTRA handover Types 9.10.2 Measurement Procedures 9.10.3. Macro Diversity 9.10.4. Compressed Working 25.215 9.10.5 Transmit Diversity 25.211, 25.214 Open-Loop transmit Diversity Closed Loop Transmit Diversity 9.10.6 Transmit Power Control 9.10.7. Accessing the network services with ASC- Access Service Classes 9.10.8. Accessing the uplink Physical common packet channel - CPCH 9.11. Physical Channel Timings and Connected Frame Number 9.12. CFN in use -an illustration of SFN to CFN observed time difference 9.13. Compressed Mode Gapping.

10. The MAC-medium access control Layer

10.1. MAC-network access & data transfer using CCCH-common control channel & DTCH 10.2 MAC-medium access control (UE) Introduction 10.2.1 UL-DCH to PRACH-or-PCPCH-on the air interface . 10.2.2. UL-DTCH or DCCH-to a DPCH-on the Uu 10.2.3. Network (UTRAN) MAC 10.3. Encryption.

11. The RLC- radio link control Layer 25.322

11.1. RLC- radio link control- AM (acknowledged mode) Functional Diagram 25.322 RLC- radio link control Set-up 25.322 11.2. RLC-AM (acknowledged mode) Transmission and Reception 25.322 11.3. RLC-AM-Flow Control 11.4. RLC- radio link control UM (unacknowledged mode) Transmission 25.322 11.5. RLC- TM (transparent mode) Transmission 25.322.

12. The PDCP-packet data convergence protocol Layer 25.323

13. BMC-broadcast and multicast control layer. 25.324

14. RRC - radio resources control Layer 25.331

14.1. RRC- Introduction to operations 14.1.1. RRC - Control Functions to lower layers 14.1.2. RRC-and the NAS-non access stratum 14.1.3. RRC-Signalling to the RLC-layer Signalling Radio Bearers Radio Bearers - A Definition 23.107 14.1.4. RRC-channels used beyond the RLC-layer 14.1.5. U-Plane & C-Plane 14.2. RRC-in action -illustrative examples 23.110 & 24.007 14.2.1. RRC-layers establishing a CS-circuit switched call 14.2.3. RRC-layers establishing a PS-packet-switched call on the CPCH /FACH 14.2.4. PS Resource Release 23.060, 25.33.

15. 3G Security Procedures 33.102

15.1. 3G Network Access Security 33.102 15.2. 3G Network Access Security procedures - Authentication 33.102, 25.331 15.3. 3G Network Access Security procedures -Encryption & Integrity 33.102, 25.331 Integrity Checking Encryption Integrity function f9 inputs Ciphering function f8 inputs 15.4. The UMTS Subscriber with different versions of UE - user equipment and GSM core network.

16. UMTS QoS-quality of service

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