GSM BASICS

The Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is the world?s dominant wireless
technology. It?s no exaggeration to state that every wireless technology that has some
since GSM has been impacted by it, at least in a conceptual way. This GSM overview
course sets the stage for a more advanced study of GSM and other technologies, both
current and future.
Audience: This GSM course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or
technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers,
system engineers, network professionals, marketing and sales professional, IT
professionals, and others who plan on using, evaluating or working with GSM, EDGE,
GPRS, 3G and other wireless networks, applications and services.
Prerequisites: None
Customize it: This 2-3-day GSM course will be customized to your needs and
specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word
to the wise, there are many vendors of wireless training. They will typically have a broad
and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization?s
ame on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every
course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are
getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren?t too sure of what that
was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our ?standard?, one size fits all,
class.
Objectives: After having taken the GSM course, you will be in a position to describe the
various components of a GSM network and their interrelationships. You will have a road
map of where modern mobile telecommunications came from, where it is currently, and
where it is headed. This will enable you to properly evaluate the plethora of claims and
counterclaims being made by a number of existing and planned technologies.
Course Outline

Evolution of GSM

 Original motivation for GSM: What did GSM replace and why?
 GSM: What does the acronym stand for and how/why has that changed?
 GSM Phase 1, GSM phase 2, and then what?
 Current evolutionary path for GSM operators

GSM Network Components and their Functionality

 MSC: The heart of the system

 BSC: Why is it there?
 BTS: What the mobile actually ?communicates? with
 MS: Without the mobile there is no mobile communications!
 GSM-defined data bases
 GSM-defined interfaces
 GSM core network architecture and capabilities: How a mobile originated call is ?
connected? to the rest of the world
GSM: The Radio Interface

 Fundamental structures on the frequency domain

 Fundamental structures on the time domain
 Burst types, motivation, and structures
 Physical channels and logical channels
 Framing structures and mapping of logical channels to physical channels
 Cell selection and reselection principles
 Call establishment signaling flows including handover principles
 Idle mode procedures, including location area updates and registrations

Course Recap and Conclusion

Please call or e-mail to schedule a no-obligation conference call to help us understand your
audience background and training objectives.

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 CDMA2000: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
 UMTS System Overview
 UMTS Core Network Fundamentals
 UMTS QoS Fundamentals
 UMTS-FDD: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
 UMTS-TDD: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
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 HSDPA: etwork Architecture, Operation, and Design
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 GSM Air Interface
 GSM Cell Planning
 GSM Network Architecture, Operation, and Design

 GSM Optimization

Introduction:

This advanced course provide a focussed and in-depth coverage of the GSM air interface, procedures
and functions.

Audience:

Engineers, technicians and other technical professionals involved with GSM mobile equipment or base
stations, who require an in-depth understanding of the GSM air interface.

Prerequisites:

Delegates should have attended course 623: GSM System Overview, or have equivalent knowledge prior
to attending this course.

Customize it:

This 2-3-day GSM Air Interface course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will
assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of
Wireless training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed
and just put your organization?s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment.
At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what
you are getting is what you really eed even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We
fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class. Please call or e-mail
to schedule a no-obligation conference call to help us understand your audience background and training
objectives.

Objectives:

On completing this course, you will be able to:

Course Outline
Air Interface Channel Characteristics

 Frequency Spectrum
 FDMA working
 GSM TDMA details
 Burst Characteristics
 --Frequency Correction
 --Synchronisation
 --Random Access
 --Normal Burst
 --Dummy Burst
 Channel Types
 --Logical Channels
 --Control
 --Traffic
 --Physical Channels
 --Multi-Frame Structures
 Channel Mapping

Signalling Structures

 Air Interface Protocol Structure

 Layer 2 Structures and Procedures
 --LAPD
 --LAPDm
 Layer 1
 --SACCH Format
 --SACCH Transmission
 BSSAP functionality
 --BSSMAP
 --DTAP
 Radio Resource
 Call Control
 Mobility Management

Procedures and Messages

 GSM Modes
 System Information
 Cell Selection and Re-Selection
 Location Updates
 Control Channel Structures and Usage
 --Paging
 --Access Grant
 --SDCCH
 Dedicated Mode Procedures
  --General
 --Measurements
 --Power Control
 --SAACH
 Power Classes
 Timing Advance

Messages

 Paging
 Assignment
 Service Request
 Attach / Detach
 Authentication
 Ciphering

Handover Procedures

 Measurement Reports
 Handover Types
 Power Budget
 Interference
 Synchronisation

Air Interface Sequences

 Location Update
 MO Call
 MT Call
 VGCS

Advanced Procedures and Considerations

 Cell Splitting
 Vertical Frequency re-use
 Propagation Models
 Common Propagation Models
 DTX and DRX
 Frequency Hopping
 Cell Planning Issues
 --General Considerations
 --Reduction of Delay spread
 --Concentric Cells

 --Street Canyons
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GSM is the World's favourite and most successful mobile network technology with nearly 4
billion users World-wide. Planning GSM networks is a well-developed industry, with many
planning tools available.

 Understand GSM Cell Planning in-depth.

 Master the terminology and practice of path loss modelling and link budget
calculation for GSM networks.
 Evaluate some of the leading tools and processes for GSM planning.
 Understand RF planning through all of its stages for GSM networks.

Audience: Delegates needing to be involved with RF planning for GSM. Such delegates
would be employed or contracted to operators, manufacturers, integrators or regulators.
Prerequisites: The course assumes a basic understanding of RF terms as well as GSM
technical concepts and architecture
Customize it: This 2-3-day GSM Cell Planning course will be customized to your needs
and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A
word to the wise, there are many vendors of Wireless training. They will typically have a
broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your
organization?s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At
Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you
ensure what you are getting is what you really eed even if at the beginning you weren't too
sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard,
one size fits all, class. Please call or e-mail to schedule a no-obligation conference call to
help us understand your audience background and training objectives.
Objectives:

On completing this course, you will be able to:

 Understand and apply the GSM Planning Process.

  Appreciate the techniques used for capacity planning in GSM networks.
 Work with an evaluation copy of a professional RF planning tool for GSM Cell
Planning

Course Outline

Introduction to Radio Network Planning

 The Overall Process

 Outage
 Initial Preparation
 Cell Count Estimation
 Detailed Network Planning

Introduction to GSM Planning

 Cell Types
 Cell Reuse Distance
 Co-channel Interference
 The GSM Air Interface

Network Capacity

 The Erlang and the Erlang Formular

Network Planning Tasks

 Creating a Nominal Plan

 Getting Sites
 Ten Commitments to Best Siting Practice
 Objectors

Radio Network Planning

 Parameter Planning
 GSM Channels
 Network Optimisation
 When IP Gets Involved
 Mobility Management
 Location Areas
 Capacity Evolution
 Intelligent Underlay/Overlay
 Frequency Hopping
 SFH and IFH
 Railways
 GSM Coding Schemes and the effect on Cells
Radio Network Planning Tools

 Planning Methodology
 Tools Overview
 Frequency Planning
 System Planning
 Signalling Capacity
 Bearer Dimensioning
 The Testmobile

Evaluation RF Tool

 Walkthrough

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Introduction: 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 five-day course.
Audience: Those with some prior GSM experience who wish to study GSM in depth. The
standard presentation of this course assumes a bachelor of science in Electrical
Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related subject along with an appropriate
background in communications engineering. Knowledge of the wireless network structure
and operation, RF propagation and fading issues, and link budget analysis.
Customize it: This 4-5-day GSM: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design course
will be customized to your eeds and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying
those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of wireless
training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already
developed and just put your organization’s name on the title slide. This minimizes their
effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting
specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at
the beginning you weren’t too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We
never fit you into our “standard”, one size fits all, class.
Course Aim: Upon 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 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.
Course Outline

GSM Network Architecture and System Overview

 GSM architecture: Original, current, and evolving

 Key core network features of GSM, incuding 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 Speech Coding

 Full rate vocoder

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

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

Course Recap and Conclusions

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audience background and training objectives.

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 GSM: Optimization and Advanced Features
 GSM Cell Planning
 GSM Air Interface
 GSM: System Overview
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 GPRS: Air Interface
 GPRS: System Engineering
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 CDMA2000: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
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 UMTS Core Network Fundamentals
 UMTS QoS Fundamentals
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 UMTS-TDD: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
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 HSDPA: etwork Architecture, Operation, and Design
 HSUPA: System Overview
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 GSM Air Interface Training

 GSM Cell Planning
 GSM Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
 GSM Optimization
 GSM System Engineering

 GSM and GPRS Security

Introduction:

GSM is a mature technology rich in features, capabilities, and options intended to solve a host of specific
problems. This course, third in our series of courses on GSM, examines these advanced features and
offers practical strategies for exploiting them to optimize GSM networks.

Audience:

Experienced GSM engineers who wish to study the advanced functionality of GSM. The standard
presentation of this course assumes a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics,
Physics, or a related subject along with an appropriate background in communications engineering.

Customize it:

This 2-3-day GSM Optimization course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will
assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of
wireless training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed
and just put your organization?s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment.
At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what
you are getting is what you really eed even if at the beginning you weren?t too sure of what that was. We
fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our ?standard?, one size fits all, class.

Course Aim:

While the ?standard features? of GSM are indeed quite powerful, a superb technology, such as GSM,
offers options and capabilities that go beyond the ?surface? of initial implementations. Having completed
this course, you will be able to identify performance problems in a GSM network, existing or potential,
and use GSM?s advanced functionality to help resolve them. Armed with the knowledge of GSM?s ?
power features?, you will be able to achieve more optimum network operation including better voice
quality and greater capacity.
Course Outline

GSM Framing Structure Review and Key Observations

 The 26-frame multiframe

 The 51-frame multiframe

Combining the SDCCH with the CCCH

 Pros and cons of alternative structures on the 51-frame multiframe

 Paging channel capacity, paging channel subchannelization, and extended paging channel
capabilities
 RACH capacity, stability, and capacity enhancement mechanisms
 CCCH optimization mechanisms

Parameters and Algorithms Controlling the GSM Radio Subsystem

 Cell selection
 Cell reselection
 Location area updates and registrations
 Handover execution
 Network-wide performance optimization considerations and tradeoffs

Measurement Processing and Handover Considerations

 Measurements: How, when, and where

 Measurement processing Information Elements (IE) and their functionality
 Measurement processing rules and options available to vendors, operators, and network
designers
 Optimization of neighbor lists
 Network synchronization issues, options, and corresponding performance issues and optimization

Optimization Using Phase 2+ Capabilities

 AMR
 Frequency hopping issues and parameters
 Smart antennas
 Dual band operational and optimization-related issues

Course Recap and Conclusion

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 GPRS: Air Interface
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 CDMA2000; Fundamentals
 CDMA2000: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
 UMTS System Overview
 UMTS Core Network Fundamentals
 UMTS QoS Fundamentals
 UMTS-FDD: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
 UMTS-TDD: Network Architecture, Operation, and Design
 HSDPA: System Overview
 HSDPA: etwork Architecture, Operation, and Design
 HSUPA: System Overview
 1xRTT: etwork Architecture, Operation, and Design
 1xEVDV: Fundamentals
 1xEVDO: Fundamentals

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Engineers, technicians, and technical managers with technical backgrounds but limited
wireless experience.
Prerequisites: Basic technical mathematics
Course Description: This two-day seminar provides a solid grounding in principles of
basic GSM system design and RF engineering. Propagation, antenna systems, and traffic
engineering principles are thoroughly introduced. Finally, GSM system design, growth, and
performance considerations are explored each student receiving example files on disk.
Course Outline:

Signal Principles

 Modulation
  Bandwidth
 Interference
 Performance

Radio Propagation Basics for GSM

 Frequency and Wavelength

 The Physics of Propagation: Free Space, Reflection, Diffraction
 Local Variability: Rayleigh fading and multipath cancellation
 Area Propagation Models: Okumura, HATA, Cost 231
 Point-to-Point Models: techniques and commercial software
 Analyzing measured data to produce models
 Reliability of Service: using statistics to design for reliability
 Macro-cell Indoor Penetration Considerations and reliability
 Micro-cellular systems and techniques

GSM Air Interface Overview

 GSM Air Interface Basics and Signal RF Characteristics

 How it all works: decoding GSM signals
 Capacity Implications of the Air Interface
 CM, MM, RR (Layer 3 messages)
 LAPDm (Layer 2)
 Radio channel (Layer 1)
 Logical and Physical Channels
 Handover

Antennas for GSM

 Basic Antennas: Isotropic and Dipole radiators

 Concept of Antenna Gain and gain references
 Effective Radiated Power
 Antenna Patterns and Pattern Features
 How Antennas achieve Gain
 Reflector techniques, array techniques
 Families of Antennas used in Wireless: architecture, characteristics
 Collinear vertical antennas
 Horizontal arrays: yagis, log-periodics, etc.
 Implications of propagation driving antenna selection
 Multipath scattering in mobile clutter environment
 Beamwidth and tilt considerations for base station antennas

Basic Principles of Traffic Engineering for GSM

 Terms and Basic Concepts

 Traffic Units (Erlangs, CCS, Minutes)
  Trunks, Circuits, Voice Paths
 Offered Traffic vs. Carried Traffic
 Blocking Probability, Grade of Service
 Basic Operational Concepts
 Using Traffic Tables
 Principle of Trunking Efficiency

GSM Link Budgets and High-Level System Design

 Link Budget basics and application principles

 Traffic Considerations
 Determining Number of Cells Required

Optional Background Material for GSM

 Calculating levels in decibels

 Receiver Basics
 Superheterodyne architecture, frequency conversion, images
 Sensitivity: noise basics
 Dynamic range and intermodulation considerations
 Transmitter Basics
 Linear vs. non-linear amplifier

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Course Name: GSM and GPRS Security Training
Course Duration: 1 Days
Deployment Option: Onsite Training
Course Price: $1099.00

Who Should Attend:

Anyone needing in-depth knowledge of the security in the GSM family of wireless networks.
The course is essential for network security & wireless specialists, operators and
manufacturers, wireless network researcher, academics, security engineers, researchers and
consultants.
Prerequisites:

General knowledge of GSM/GPRS Networks.

Course Description:

Having completed this course the participant will be able to understand how security is
implemented, deployed and managed in GSM, GPRS and UMTS networks, understand
security concepts, understand the benefits of new security techniques applied and how they
are implemented.

Course Objectives:

The goal of this course is to give the participant a strong and intuitive understanding of what
security in the wireless systems is and how the security functions are implemented in the
GSM/GPRS/UMTS radio and core network. The course focuses both on the air interface and
the core network.

Course Outline:

Security Overview
• Basic security concepts
• Authentication
• Privacy
• Integrity
• Authorization
• Non-repudiation
Encryption
• Encryption Technologies
• Cryptography Keys
• Symmetric and Asymmetric
• Ciphers
• Cipher Suites
• Certificates
Overview of Wireless Security Requirements
• Wireless security needs
• Basic GSM, GPRS and UMTS security functions
GSM Security Review
• GSM security algorithms
• GSM authentication and authorization procedures
• GSM ciphering procedures
• Security threats to GSM
GPRS Security Review
• GPRS security algorithms
• GSM authentication and authorization procedures
• GPRS ciphering procedures
• Kasumi, GEA1, GEA2 and GEA3
• Security threats to GPRS
UMTS Security Review
• Security in UTRAN
• Security in the UMTS Core Network
• UMTS security algorithms
• UMTS authentication and authorization procedures
• UMTS ciphering procedures
• Security threats to UMTS
UMTS Authentication and Key Management
• AKA Algorithms
• Normal AKA procedure
• AKA procedure in the AuC
• AKA procedure in the USIM
• AKA procedure in the VLR/SGSN
• Integrity function f9, Confidentiality function f8
• Milenage and KASUMI algorithms

Course Name: GSM and GPRS Security Training

Course Duration: 1 Days
Deployment Option: Onsite Training
Course Price: $1099.00

Who Should Attend:

Anyone needing in-depth knowledge of the security in the GSM family of wireless networks.
The course is essential for network security & wireless specialists, operators and
manufacturers, wireless network researcher, academics, security engineers, researchers and
consultants.

Prerequisites:

General knowledge of GSM/GPRS Networks.

Course Description:

Having completed this course the participant will be able to understand how security is
implemented, deployed and managed in GSM, GPRS and UMTS networks, understand
security concepts, understand the benefits of new security techniques applied and how they
are implemented.

Course Objectives:

The goal of this course is to give the participant a strong and intuitive understanding of what
security in the wireless systems is and how the security functions are implemented in the
GSM/GPRS/UMTS radio and core network. The course focuses both on the air interface and
the core network.

Course Outline:

Security Overview
• Basic security concepts
• Authentication
• Privacy
• Integrity
• Authorization
• Non-repudiation
Encryption
• Encryption Technologies
• Cryptography Keys
• Symmetric and Asymmetric
• Ciphers
• Cipher Suites
• Certificates
Overview of Wireless Security Requirements
• Wireless security needs
• Basic GSM, GPRS and UMTS security functions
GSM Security Review
• GSM security algorithms
• GSM authentication and authorization procedures
• GSM ciphering procedures
• Security threats to GSM
GPRS Security Review
• GPRS security algorithms
• GSM authentication and authorization procedures
• GPRS ciphering procedures
• Kasumi, GEA1, GEA2 and GEA3
• Security threats to GPRS
UMTS Security Review
• Security in UTRAN
• Security in the UMTS Core Network
• UMTS security algorithms
• UMTS authentication and authorization procedures
• UMTS ciphering procedures
• Security threats to UMTS
UMTS Authentication and Key Management
• AKA Algorithms
• Normal AKA procedure
• AKA procedure in the AuC
• AKA procedure in the USIM
• AKA procedure in the VLR/SGSN
• Integrity function f9, Confidentiality function f8
• Milenage and KASUMI algorithms