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Communication PSTN
Inter-Exchange Junction
Telephone Exchanges
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Communication - PLMN
Inter-Exchange Junction
BSC
Telephone Exchange
Mobile Switching Centre (MSC)
BTS
MS
Space Division Multiplexing Available space much more than required and hence dedicated access to each. Teledensity of an area does not pose any problem. Static Network snapshots.
MS
BSC
BTS
Frequency/Time Division Multiplexing Limited RF spectrum and hence RF channels assigned on demand Dynamically changing teledensity in each area. Dynamic Network snapshots.
Mobility Issues
Demand on scarce Radio Resources. Security. Keep track of users. Maintain established communication. Power Management of Mobile Phone. Providing service across networks. Billing & Accounting
890-915MHz Uplink,935-960MHz Downlink, Channels 124, carrier spacing 200khz, T/R spacing 45Mhz, Max.cell size 35Km
GSM -1800 1710-1785 MHz Uplink,1805-1880 MHz Downlink,Channels 374, carrier spacing 200khz, T/R spacing 95Mhz.Max Cell size 4Km.
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935-960 MHz
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F4 F4
F3
F1
F2
F3
F1
F2 F5 F7
F7
F5
F6
F6
Non-interference Separation
Security
Subscriber Identity Authentication To prevent unauthorised access to GSM network & its services. User data confidentiality To ensure privacy of the user data Subscriber Identity Confidentiality To ensure identity of the user in the radio path
Security
Registration The process of verifying the authenticity of the user before allowing him to use the services of the network. Use of Keys & Algorithms Authentication Ciphering.
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Handover
Use of Cellular principle limits the
area of coverage of a single radio path. Keep the communication path even when the user crosses cell boundaries and enter into new cell.
Area and Geographical boundaries. Universal service coverage? Use of others Network to provide
service to visitor Agreement between Service Providers.
System Architecture
Functional Architecture broadly divided into six parts:
Mobile Station. Base Station Subsystem (BSS). Network Switching Subsystem (NSS). Operation and Maintenance Subsystem.
A Um
SIM ME
Abis
BTS
BSC
HLR
VLR
OMC
MSC
BSC
BTS EIR AuC
Mobile Station
Network Subsystem
NSS
Backhaul BSC
Transit Net SGSN GSN GPRS Support Node SGSN Serving GSN GGSN Gateway GSN
BSC
Transit Net
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Mobile Station
Mobile Station is really two distinct entities.
Mobile equipment or Mobile terminal. SIM Card. Mobile equipment, which is the actual Hardware, is almost anonymous. SIM card, implemented as a smart card holds the subscriber information.
Mobile Terminal
Different terminals distinguished
principally by their power and application. Fixed terminals 20W Portable terminals for cars 8W Handheld terminals 2W Sophisticated terminals 0.8W Every terminal has an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI).
The SIM
SIM provides Personal Mobility. Holds a unique identifier called
International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), Service profile, Secret key for authentication, etc. Provides user access to all subscribed services. SIM makes the terminal operational. Can be password protected by a 4 to 8 digit Personal Identification Number.
The SIM
SIM is classified on the basis of: Operating voltage. RAM capacity.
Operating Voltages: 3V and 5V. RAM Capacity: 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K
called Base Station (BS) Transcoder and. Base Station Controller (BSC). BSS provides the radio interface functions. Completely digital.
define a cell. Handles the radio-link protocols with the Mobile Station Each BTS can support a number of transceivers depending on the density of subscribers in the cell. Needs to be rugged, reliable, portable.
BTS Functions
Synchronization of signals of
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for one or a group of BTSs. Handles radio-channel setup, frequency hopping, handovers, and control of the RF power levels. Establishes connection between the mobile station and the MSC.
the mobile users and other users. Provides all the functionality needed to handle a mobile subscriber such as: Registration. Authentication and security. Location updating. Handovers and Routing to roaming subscribers.
(Mobile Services Switching Centre). It performs the switching functions of the network. Gateway Mobile Services Switching Centre interfaces between the mobile network and PSTN.
information of each USER subscribered in an GSM network. Logically there is one HLR per GSM/PLMN network.
HLR
Permanent Register of the
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VLR
Maintains subscriber information
who are currently in its service area. Gives current location of the subscriber Temporary Database
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AUC
Verifies SIM cards Authentication of SIM is done
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EIR
Used for security purposes Checks IMEI Contains 3 Lists
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OMCR
The maintenance control point for all
BTSs and BSCs in a GSM system. Gives Fault status Of BTSs. Operation and Administration. Data and Software storage for network elements. Traffic reporting and analysis.
OMCR
The maintenance control point for all
BTSs and BSCs in a GSM system. Gives Fault status Of BTSs. Operation and Administration. Data and Software storage for network elements. Traffic reporting and analysis.
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functions concerned with the management of transmission resources on the radio path (Um interface). It must cope with limited radio resources and share them dynamically between all demands. The mobile station and the BSC mainly perform the functions of the Radio Resource management.
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between the mobile stations and the BSC Maintain them despite user movement for the duration of a call. Release the connections between the mobile stations and the BSC.
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are: Power Control Handover Discontinuous transmission Call re-establishment Frequency hopping.
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POWER CONTROL
Power control enables the mobile station
and/or the BTS to increase or decrease the transmission power on a per-radio link basis. Power Control is separately performed for the uplink and downlink. In both cases the BSC is responsible for initiating Power Control; the mobile station and the BTS adopt transmit power according to the BSC Power Control commands.
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MEASUREMENTS
While a mobile station is active on a call, it has the
responsibility of providing measurement data about the performance of the air-interface to its serving BTS so that the serving BSC can decide if a power control should be performed. Also the serving BTS measures the performance of the air-interface. Whereas the mobile station measures the performance of the downlink, the BTS measures the performance of the uplink. These measurement includes Strength &Quality of the received signal
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Downlink measurements
The mobile station measures and
reports the following measurements to the BSC regarding the Performance of the downlink. Strength of the signal being receiving from its serving BTS (in dBm) Quality of the signal being received from its serving BTS (in bit error rate).
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UPLINK MEASUREMENTS
The BTS measures and reports the
following measurements to the BSC regarding the performance of the uplink: Strength of the signal being received from the mobile station. Quality of the signal being received from the mobile station.
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POWER CONTROL
When the BSC notices that the signal strength
of a particular radio link measured on the uplink becomes below the lower pre-defined threshold because the mobile station moves away from the BTS, it sends a Power Control Command to the mobile station to increase its transmits power (MS_TXPWR) by a predefined step (typically 2 dB). The transmit power of the mobile station can be increased until a maximum defined level is reached.
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POWER CONTROL
The BSC can also send a Power Control
command to the mobile station to reduce transmits power when it notices that the signal strength measured becomes above the upper pre-defined threshold. The downlink Power Control process is similar to the uplink Power Control process.
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be enabled or disabled on a per cell basis One reason to enable Power Control is to save MS battery power. However, the main reason for Power Control is to improve the carrier-to-interference ratio within the cellular network, which helps to minimize interference caused on the other calls in the surrounding area.
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HANDOVER
Handover is the process of automatically
switching a call in progress from one traffic channel to another to neutralize the adverse effects of user movements. The switch can be made either to a TCH within the same cell or in another cell. Note that the handover process will normally be started if power control is not helpful anymore.
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Why Handover
Use of Cellular principle limits the
area of coverage of a single radio path. Keep the communication path even when the user crosses cell boundaries and enter into new cell.
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Handover Process
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HANDOVER PROCESS
As a mobile station moves away from its
serving BTS towards the coverage area of neighboring BTSs, the mobile station measurement reports will show a gradual decrease in signal strength from its serving BTS while showing an increase in measured signal strength from one or more neighboring BTSs.
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HANDOVER PROCESS
to analyze the measurement reports from the mobile station and to decide when a handover should be performed. If it is determined that there is a better BTS to serve the call, the serving BSC initiates the handover procedure.
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Handover types
1)Internal or intra-BSS handover, which
can be: Intra cell handover Inter-cell handover. External or inter-BSS handover, which can be: Intra-MSC handover. Inter-MSC handover.
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Handover types
If the serving and candidate BTSs
reside within the same BSS, the BSC for the BSS can perform the handover without the involvement of the MSC thus termed internal or intra BSS handover. This type of handover can also be sub-divided into intra-cell and inter-cell handovers.
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Handover types
If the serving and candidate BTSs
do not reside within the same BSS, then an inter-BSS handover is performed, which requires the MSC to serving BTS and the candidate BTS. This type of handover can also be divided into intra-MSC and inter-MSC handovers.
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broadcast channel, measuring the strength of the currently used radio channel and the neighboring channels When the old BSS, currently supporting the MS, determines that the MS requires to be handed over it will send a Handover required message to the MSC with a list of cells to which the MS can be handed over.
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message, the MSC begins the process of handing over the MS to the new BSS. The MSC sends a Handover Request message to the selected BSS (new BSS) The new BSS takes the necessary actions to allow the MS to access the new radio resources and then sends the acknowledgement (Handover Request-ACK message to the MSC containing the Handover Reference Number (hrn))
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handover can take place The old BSS sends a command to the MS to tune to the new radio channel The MS accesses the new radio resource by sending the message Handover Access containing the hrn. The hrn is checked by the new BSS to ensure it is as expected and the correct MS has been captured.
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If this is the correct MS the new BSS sends a handover Detect message to the MSC When the MS is successfully communicating with the new BSS it sends to it a Handover Complete message.
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The new BSS forwards this message to the MSC. The MS is now served by a new BSS, the trunk reserved for the communication between the MSC and the old BSS can now be released. Consequently the radio traffic channel is released.
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mobile station and the BTS becomes too big Received signal level (or signal strength) on the downlink or uplink becomes too bad Received signal quality on the downlink or uplink becomes too bad Path loss situation for the mobile station to another cell is better Duration that the mobile station stays in a cell
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Discontinuous transmission
Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) is a
mechanism that allows the radio transmitter to be switched off most of the time during speech pauses. DTX can be enabled or disabled for the uplink and/or downlink mode on a percell basis. The following figure shows Discontinuous Transmission (DTX).
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13kbit/s when the user is effectively speaking, but in a speech pause information is transmitted at a bit rate around 500 bit/s. this low rate flow is sufficient to encode the background noise, which is re-generated to ensure that the listener does not think that the connection is broken (comfort noise).
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on the radio path is reduced. This will cause a decrease of the interference level in cochannel cells (using the same frequency). Another advantage will appear when using DTX in the uplink mode: it saves battery power for the mobile station. However, a disadvantage of the DTX mode is that it slightly deteriorates the quality of transmission.
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CALL RE-ESTABLISHMENT
Call re-establishment enables the mobile
station to resume the contact with the cellular network when the connection to a particular BTS is suddenly broken. This may happen because of a brutal propagation loss, due to obstacles such as bridges and tunnels. Call re-establishment is a GSM feature that can be enabled or disabled on a per cell basis.
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FREQUENCY HOPPING
The Frequency Hopping function
permits the dynamic switching of radio links from one carrier frequency to another. Frequency hopping changes the frequency used by a radio link every new TMDA frame in a regular pattern.
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interference Frequency Hopping will spread the annoyance of interference over different mobile stations in a particular cell. Suppressing the effect of fading
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radio link changes carrier frequency, is described by the hopping sequence. The hopping sequence can have a cyclic pattern or a pseudo-random pattern.
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Mobility Management
1)Network attachment :It is the process of
selecting an appropriate cell (radio frequency) by the mobile station to provide the available services, and making its location known to the network. When a mobile station is switched on it Measure the BCCH channels
Search for a suitable cell
it registers its presence in this cell (registration process) by means of a location updating procedure.
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BTS
BSC LA 1
MSC 1
BTS
BSC
BTS
LA 2
BTS
VLR 1
SS 7
BSC
HLR MSC 2
BTS
LA 3
BTS
BSC
VLR 2
Location Area
2 digits
2 octets max
( 16 bits )
MCC
MNC LAI
LAC
LAI = MCC + MNC + LAC MCC - Mobile Country Code. MNC - Mobile Network Code.
around in the coverage area of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), it reports its movements so that it can be located when required using the Location Update procedure. When a Mobile-services Switching Center (MSC) in the network needs to establish a call to an MS operating in its area the following happens:
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the identifications code of the MS The broadcast is limited to a cluster of radio cells that together form a location area. The last reported position of the MS identifies the location area to be used for the broadcast. The MS monitors the page messages transmitted by the radio cell in which it is located and, on detecting its own identification code, & responds by transmitting a page response message to the Base Transceiver Station (BTS).
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between the MSC and the MS via the BTS that received the page response message.
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Identity (LAI) MS automatically scans the control channel broadcasts transmitted by the base stations and selects the channel with strongest signal. The LAI code broadcast by the selected channel identifies the location area in which the MS is currently situated. This LAI code is stored in the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) of the mobile equipment.
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area the signal received gradually diminishes in strength. At this point the MS re-tunes to the channel that has become dominant and examines the LAI code that it is broadcasting. If the received LAI code differs from that stored on the SIM, then it confirms that MS has entered another location area and initiates a location update procedure to report the change to the MSC. At the end of the procedure the LAI code in the SIM is also
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that are currently operating in its area. Each record contains a set of subscriber identity codes, related subscription information, and a Location Area Identity (LAI) code. This information is used by the MSC when handling calls to or from an MS in the area. When an MS moves from one area to another, the responsibility for its supervision passes from one VLR to another. A new data record is created by the VLR that has adopted the MS, and the old record is deleted.
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where the subscribers MS is currently located, and the address of the associated MSC. The location information enables incoming calls to be routed to the MS. In The absence this information indicates that the MS is inactive and cannot be reached. When an MS moves from one VLR area to another, the location information in the HLR is updated with the new VLR and MSC addresses. The VLR then creates a new entry for the MS, using subscription data copied from the HLR.
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Thank you
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