Course Code : TRC-210
Course Duration : 3 Day(s)
Course Objectives:
To provide participants with the high level knowledge on various entities present in GSM network, procedures for location updating, call handling and short message service.
Expected Accomplishments:
- Learn about the technology used over the air interface.
- Learn about logical channels
- Gain knowledge about the bursts and their relation with logical channels.
- Get familiar with switching entities and their functions.
- Introduced to signaling structure used in GSM network.
- Go oever call handling procedures.
- Explain the location updating, handover and SMS procedures.
Who can benefit:
Telecommunication professionals interested in gaining knowledge on GSM network
Prerequisites:
- Telecommunication experience in any technical area.
Course Outline:
Introduction to GSM
- History on GSM development.
- ETSI working groups
- Technical choices for GSMAir Interface
- Frequency band for uplink and downlink
- Cell pattern and frequency reuse
- Relay fading, fading dip, time dispersion and frequency hopping
- Frame structures and Multi frame structure for traffic and control channels
- Physical and logical channels and Burst formats.Mobile Station
- Functional elements and SIM
- Information stored on SIM
- Types of mobile stationsNetwork Elements
- Identities used in GSM etwork
- Base station and TRX
- Sectorized, micro and macro cells
- Base station controller
- Functions of MSC/VLR,HLR and GMSC
- Information stored in location registers
- Authentication procedure.
- Signaling Model in GSM Network
- Interface points
- Protocol structure at each interface points
- Peer entities for each of the protocolsTraffic Cases
- Location Update
- MS originated and MS terminated call set up
- SMS transfer
- Handover procedures
Delivery Method:
- Instructor led lectures and demonstrations.
Related Training:
- Understanding GSM
- Understanding GPRS
- UMTS Fundamentals
