GSM - Architecture, Protocols and Services

With around 3 billion subscribers, GSM is the world's most commonly used technology for wireless communication. Providing an overview of the innovations that have fuelled this phenomena, GSM: Architecture, Protocols and Services, Third Edition offers a clear introduction to the field of cellular systems. Special emphasis is placed on system architecture and protocol aspects, and topics range from addressing concepts through mobility management to network management.This third edition contains around 25% new and reworked material and has been thoroughly updated to encompass recent advances and future trends. It serves as both an introductory textbook for graduate students as well as a reference resource for telecommunications engineers and researchers.This edition:Presents capacity enhancement methods like sectorization, the application of adaptive antennas for Spatial Filtering for Interference Reduction (SFIR) and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) Provides a detailed introduction to GPRS, HSCSD, and EDGE for packet-switched services and higher data rates Features updated coverage on the vastly expanded range of GSM services, including an examination of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) Adopts a highly graphical approach with numerous illustrations

Jörg Eberspächer is head of the Institute of Communication Networks at the Technische Universität München (TUM). His current research interests are high-speed and fault-tolerant communication networks: photonic networks, next generation QoS Internet, mobile networks and multimedia services.

Hans-Jörg Vögel is currently product manager for The Fantastic Corporation, where he is responsible for designing and developing new products, solutions and services in the field of broadband and mobile multimedia.

Christian Bettstetter received a Dipl-Ing degree in electrical engineering and information technology from TUM in 1998 and has since held various research posts. His current areas of interest include ad hoc networking, mobile Internet and mobility management.

Christian Hartmann is also affiliated to the Technische Universität in München. He has extensive experience in the field of telecommunications.

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The idea of unbounded communication	p. 1
The success of GSM	p. 3
Classification of mobile communication systems	p. 3
Some history and statistics of GSM	p. 5
Overview of the book	p. 7
The mobile radio channel and the cellular principle	p. 9
Characteristics of the mobile radio channel	p. 9
Separation of directions and duplex transmission	p. 12
Frequency Division Duplex	p. 13
Time Division Duplex	p. 13
Multiple access	p. 13
Frequency Division Multiple Access	p. 14
Time Division Multiple Access	p. 15
Code Division Multiple Access	p. 17
Space Division Multiple Access	p. 18
Cellular principle	p. 22
Definitions	p. 23
Carrier-to-interference ratio	p. 24
Formation of clusters	p. 25
Traffic capacity and traffic engineering	p. 26
Sectorization of cells	p. 28
Spatial filtering for interference reduction (SFIR)	p. 31
System architecture and addressing	p. 43
System architecture	p. 43
The SIM concept	p. 45
Addressing	p. 46
International mobile station equipment identity	p. 46
International mobile subscriber identity	p. 47
Mobile subscriber ISDN number	p. 47
Mobile station roaming number	p. 48
Location area identity	p. 49
Temporary mobile subscriber identity	p. 49
Other identifiers	p. 50
Registers and subscriber data	p. 50
Location registers (HLR and VLR)	p. 50
Security-related registers (AUC and EIR)	p. 51
Subscriber data	p. 52
Network interfaces and configurations	p. 53
Interfaces	p. 54
Configurations	p. 55
Air interface - physical layer	p. 57
Logical channels	p. 57
Traffic channels	p. 57
Signaling channels	p. 58
Example: connection setup for incoming call	p. 61
Bit rates, block lengths and block distances	p. 61
Combinations of logical channels	p. 62
Physical channels	p. 62
Modulation	p. 63
Multiple access, duplexing and bursts	p. 65
Optional frequency hopping	p. 69
Summary	p. 70
Synchronization	p. 70
Frequency and clock synchronization	p. 71
Adaptive frame synchronization	p. 73
Mapping of logical onto physical channels	p. 75
26-frame multiframe	p. 77
51-frame multiframe	p. 77
Radio subsystem link control	p. 80
Channel measurement	p. 81
Transmission power control	p. 86
Disconnection due to radio channel failure	p. 87
Cell selection and operation in power conservation mode	p. 89
Channel coding, source coding and speech processing	p. 91
Source coding and speech processing	p. 92
Channel coding	p. 96
External error protection: block coding	p. 98
Internal error protection: convolutional coding	p. 103
Interleaving	p. 107
Mapping onto the burst plane	p. 113
Improved codecs for speech services: half-rate codec, enhanced full-rate codec and adaptive multi-rate codec	p. 115
Power-up scenario	p. 118
Protocols
Protocol architecture planes	p. 121
Protocol architecture of the user plane	p. 123
Speech transmission	p. 123
Transparent data transmission	p. 126
Nontransparent data transmission	p. 127
Protocol architecture of the signaling plane	p. 130
Overview of the signaling architecture	p. 130
Transport of user data in the signaling plane	p. 139
Signaling at the air interface (Um)	p. 140
Layer 1 of the MS-BTS interface	p. 140
Layer 2 signaling	p. 142
Radio resource management	p. 146
Mobility management	p. 152
Connection management	p. 156
Structured signaling procedures	p. 160
Signaling procedures for supplementary services	p. 161
Realization of SMS	p. 165
Signaling at the A and Abis interfaces	p. 166
Security-related network functions: authentication and encryption	p. 173
Protection of subscriber identity	p. 173
Verification of subscriber identity	p. 173
Generating security data	p. 175
Encryption of signaling and payload data	p. 176
Signaling at the user interface	p. 179
Roaming and handover	p. 183
Mobile application part interfaces	p. 183
Location registration and location update	p. 184
Connection establishment and termination	p. 188
Routing calls to MSs	p. 188
Call establishment and corresponding MAP procedures	p. 191
Call termination	p. 195
MAP procedures and routing for short messages	p. 195
Handover	p. 197
Overview	p. 197
Intra-MSC handover	p. 199
Decision algorithm for handover timing	p. 199
MAP and inter-MSC handover	p. 205
Services	p. 211
Classical GSM services	p. 211
Teleservices	p. 211
Popular GSM services: SMS and MMS	p. 212
SMS	p. 212
EMS	p. 213
MMS	p. 213
Overview of GSM services in Phase 2+	p. 214
Bearer and teleservices of GSM Phase 2+	p. 215
Advanced speech call items	p. 215
New data services and higher data rates: HSCSD, GPRS and EDGE	p. 220
Supplementary services in GSM Phase 2+	p. 221
Supplementary services for speech	p. 221
Location service	p. 221
Service platforms	p. 222
Camel: GSM and INs	p. 223
Service platforms on the terminal side	p. 224
Wireless application protocol	p. 226
Wireless markup language	p. 226
Protocol architecture	p. 227
System architecture	p. 230
Services and applications	p. 231
Improved data services in GSM: GPRS, HSCSD and EDGE	p. 233
GPRS	p. 233
System architecture of GPRS	p. 234
Services	p. 237
Session management, mobility management and routing	p. 238
Protocol architecture	p. 242
Signaling plane	p. 247
Interworking with IP networks	p. 249
Air interface	p. 250
Authentication and ciphering	p. 257
Summary of GPRS	p. 259
HSCSD	p. 260
Architecture	p. 261
Air interface	p. 261
HSCSD resource allocation and capacity issues	p. 263
EDGE	p. 264
The EDGE concept	p. 264
EDGE physical layer, modulation and coding	p. 265
EDGE: effects on the GSM system architecture	p. 266
ECSD and EGPRS	p. 267
EDGE Classic and EDGE Compact	p. 268
Beyond GSM and UMTS: 4G	p. 269
Appendices	p. 271
Data communication and networking	p. 273
Reference configuration	p. 273
Overview of data communication	p. 274
Service selection at transitions between networks	p. 277
Bit rate adaptation	p. 277
Asynchronous data services	p. 280
Transparent transmission in the mobile network	p. 280
Nontransparent data transmission	p. 284
PAD access to public packet-switched data networks	p. 286
Synchronous data services	p. 288
Overview	p. 288
Synchronous X.25 packet data network access	p. 289
Teleservices: fax	p. 291
Aspects of network operation	p. 295
Objectives of GSM NM	p. 295
Telecommunication management network	p. 297
TMN realization in GSM networks	p. 300
GSM Addresses	p. 305
List of Acronyms	p. 307
References	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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