Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Training

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Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Training course with hands-on Exercises (Online, Onsite and Classroom Live)

The Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is the world’s dominant wireless technology.  It’s no exaggeration to state that all wireless technologies that have come since GSM have been impacted by it, at least in a conceptual way.  How does GSM solve the multitude of problems that need to be solved to provide simultaneous services to a large number of mobiles over a large geographical area?  This question, simply stated, forms the agenda of this intensive four-day GSM Training course.

Upon GSM Training or Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Training course completion, you will be able to identify the components of a GSM network and the protocols that allow them to communicate with each other.  You will be in a position to critically evaluate and compare solutions to specific problems within the rules set forth by GSM.  While GSM is a complex system, rich in details, the GSM Training course will allow you to understand the GSM structures and articulate their interactions.  This, in turn, will enable you to identify good design and optimization strategies as well as performance problems and solution approaches.

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) TrainingDuration: 3 days

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  • We can adapt this Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this GSM Training course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the GSM Training course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the GSM Training course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Global System for GSM Training course:

  • Those with some prior GSM experience who wish to study GSM in depth.
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this GSM Training course are:

  • Knowledge of wireless network structure and operation, RF propagation and fading, and RF link budget analysis.
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Training - COURSE SYLLABUS

GSM Network Architecture and System Overview

  • GSM architecture: Original, current, and evolving
  • Key core network features of GSM, including Signaling System Number 7 (SS7)
  • GSM core network evolutionary path
  • Key aspects of GSM’s air interface

GSM TDMA Structures on the RF Carrier

  • Time slots and their structure within the frame
  • Frame structures and framing hierarchy: Frames, multiframes, superframes, and hyperframe
  • Physical channels and their properties
  • Uplink versus downlink timing alignment

Logical Channels and Their Relationship to the RF Carriers and Resource Allocation/Logical Channel Optimization Issues

  • Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH)
  • Frequency Correction Channel (FCCH)
  • Synchronization Channel (SCH)
  • Common Control Channels (CCCH)
  • Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel (SDCCH)
  • Traffic Channels (TCH), full rate, half rate, and other data-carrying traffic channels
  • Associated Control Channels (ACCH)

Mapping of Logical Channels to Physical Channels, Burst Structures, and Optimization of Mapping Schemes

  • The 26-frame multiframe and its structure: Optimization options
  • The 51-frame multiframe and its structure: Optimization options
  • Burst structures, usage, and operation
    • Normal burst: Structure and usage
    • Frequency correction burst: Structure and usage
    • Synchronization burst: Structure and usage
    • Random access burst: Structure and usage
    • Dummy burst: Structure and usage

The End-to-End Digital Path: An Overview before the GSM Specifics Can Be Discussed

  • Overview of speech coding
  • Overview of error control coding, including error correction and error detection
  • Overview of modulation techniques, leading up to the GSM modulation technique

GSM Training – GSM Speech Coding

  • Full rate vocoder
  • Enhanced full rate vocoder
  • Half rate vocoder
  • Adaptive, multirate codec and voice quality performance optimization

GSM Training – GSM Error Control Coding

  • Voice traffic channel coding (error correction and error detection)
  • Data traffic channel coding options and optimization issues/limitations
  • Summary of strengths and weaknesses of the error control strategies used in GSM

Gaussian, Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK): The Digital Modulation Scheme Used in GSM

  • Why not BPSK, or QPSK, or something similar
  • What’s unique about GMSK and its properties
  • GMSK versus frequency correction burst

Call Establishment Procedures and Algorithms

  • Idle mode procedures, including details, parameters, etc of the camping algorithm
  • Cell selection/reselection procedures and parameters, including C1 and C2
  • Random Access channel (RACH) procedures and parameters
  • Dedicated mode procedures, including measurements, BSIC identification, handovers, and system optimization considerations
  • SDCCH structures, parameters, and resource allocation optimization

Layer 2 and Layer 3 Message Structures

  • Information Elements (IE) and their functionality
  • Layer 3 message structures and issues
  • Layer 3 to layer 2 interfaces
  • Layer 2 messages, associated structures, and mapping to layer 1

Evolutionary Path of GSM

  • Overview and motivation for HSCSD
  • Overview and motivation for GPRS
  • Overview and motivation for EDGE
  • Overview and motivation for CAMEL
  • Overview and motivation for 3G/WCDMA/UMTS/UTRA
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Training Course: Recap, Q/A, and Evaluation

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