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    Introduction to GSM: Second Edition
    Introduction to GSM: Second Edition
    Introduction to GSM: Second Edition
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    Introduction to GSM: Second Edition

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    ebook edition. A brief technical introduction to mobile telephony in general and the GSM "2G" cellular system in particular. Both a student primer and a ready reference, the Second Edition focuses on the overall architecture and the air interface, including many corrections and improvements, and with more included in this reprint.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 21, 2017
    ISBN9780244020866
    Introduction to GSM: Second Edition
    Author

    Guy Inchbald

    Guy Inchbald was born in London, England in 1952 and has been moving around the country ever since. He went to more schools and universities than he can remember and has been at one time or another an aircraft enthusiast, student of philosophy, trainee architect, freelance designer, electronics engineer, parent, businessman, technical author, amateur geometer, parish councillor and general nuisance. It is with this last that he has finally found his niche. You, my friend, are his latest victim. Enjoy.

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      Introduction to GSM - Guy Inchbald

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      Introduction to GSM

      Second Edition

      by

      Guy Inchbald

      First Edition published 2005

      by Guy Inchbald

      Second Edition 2017

      Reprinted 2021

      published by steelpillow

      in association with Lulu.com

      Copyright © Guy Inchbald 2005, 2017, 2021

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced, downloaded or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the fair use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly discussion.

      steelpillow, Park View, Queenhill,

      Upton-on-Severn, Worcs. WR8 0RE, UK

      ISBN   978-0-244-02086-6

      Contents

      Preface to the Second Edition

      1   Cellular mobile telephony

      1.1   Origins

      1.2   The GSM system

      1.2.1   Circuit switching

      1.2.2   CCS – Common Channel Signalling

      1.2.3   Evolution

      2   The GSM network

      2.1   The cellular system

      2.1.1   Frequency re-use and clustering

      2.1.2   Types of cell

      2.1.3   Physical architecture

      2.1.4   Geographical areas

      2.2   MS – Mobile Station

      2.2.1   ME – Mobile Equipment

      2.2.2   SIM – Subscriber Identity Module

      2.3   BSS – Base Station Subsystem

      2.3.1   BTS – Base Transceiver Station

      2.3.2   BSC – Base Station Controller

      2.4   NSS – Network and Switching Subsystem

      2.4.1   MSC – Mobile services Switching Centre

      2.4.2   HLR – Home Location Register

      2.4.3   VLR – Visitor Location Register

      2.4.4   AuC – Authentication Centre

      2.4.5   EIR – Equipment Identity Register

      2.4.6   GIWU – GSM Interworking Unit

      2.5   OSS – Operation and Support Subsystem

      3   Network functions and signalling

      3.1   GSM network functions

      3.2   Transmission

      3.3   RR – Radio Resources management

      3.3.1   Handover

      3.4   MM – Mobility Management

      3.4.1   Location management

      3.4.2   Authentication and security

      3.5   CM – Communication Management

      3.5.1   CC – Call Control

      3.5.2   Supplementary Services management

      3.5.3   SMS (Short Message Services) management

      3.6   OAM – Operation, Administration and Maintenance

      3.7   Signalling architecture

      3.7.1   Layer 3 protocols

      3.7.2   Layer 2 – LAPDm

      3.7.3   Layer 1

      4   The air interface

      4.1   The GSM radio bands

      4.2   Multiple access scheme

      4.2.1   FDMA

      4.2.2   TDMA

      4.3   Other radio features

      4.3.1   Timing advance

      4.3.2   Power control

      4.3.3   Multipath equalisation and the training sequence

      4.3.4   Frequency hopping

      4.3.5   DTX – Discontinuous transmission

      4.3.6   Discontinuous reception

      4.4   Processing the signal from source to destination

      4.4.1   Data coding

      4.4.2   Channel coding

      4.4.3   Interleaving

      4.4.4   Burst assembling

      4.4.5   Enciphering

      4.4.6   Modulation

      5   Channel structures

      5.1   General structures

      5.1.1   Logical channels and grouping

      5.1.2   TDMA frame sequencing

      5.1.3   Burst structure

      5.2   User traffic and associated signalling

      5.2.1   TCH – Traffic channels

      5.2.2   SACCH – Slow Associated Control Channels

      5.2.3   FACCH – Fast Associated Control Channels

      5.2.4   The 26-frame multiframe

      5.3   Common access control

      5.3.1   BCH – Broadcast Channels

      5.3.2   CCCH – Common Control Channels

      5.4   Dedicated signalling

      5.4.1   DCCH – Dedicated

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