GSM Survey

T H E F U N D A M E N TA L S O F T H E W O R L D ´ S L E A D I N G M O B I L E S Y S T E M
GSM Survey

The fundamentals of the world´s leading mobile system

 Which services can GSM provide?
 What does the BSC do?
 Which are the logical and physical channels?
 What are the roles of HLR and VLR?
 What is roaming and how is it performed?
 How is a handover performed?
 What are FDMA, TDMA and CDMA?
 What is a location area?
 What is cell re-selection?
 How are bit errors handled in GSM?
 What is GPRS?
 What is a frequency plan?
 How can the system migration to UMTS be performed?

GSM is the most widespread, most commonly deployed and fastest growing system standard for mobile telephony in
the world. Even though UMTS, the third generation mobile system, makes its entry into the market, GSM undergoes
continuous evolution and development.

High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD), Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and General Packet Radio
Service (GPRS) can be added to the GSM network resulting in new features, new functionality and increased data rates.

A GSM system with implemented GPRS functionality provides the core network required also by UMTS. Hence, the
platform is already prepared for the migration into the third generation mobile system, UMTS.

Course Description
The Widermind GSM Survey is a 2-day course providing a solid understanding of the GSM technology.

All nodes, entities, interfaces and fundamental procedures in the system are thoroughly described. The differences in
nature between circuit-switched and packet-switched data are discussed, as well as the basics of the GPRS system. The
mobile terminal, services provided in the GSM system and different kinds of channels in the air interface are some of
the issues described. Several traffic cases and procedures are exemplified with live demonstrations.
 Contents
Mobile Evolution
• Circuit- and packet switched
• Mobile generations
• Characteristics
• Bit rates
Standardisation
• Organisations
• GSM phases
• Services
Network Architecture
• Radio network
• Core network
• Network nodes
• Basic procedures
Mobile Station
• ME functions
• SIM functions
Air interface
• Methods for radio access
• Frequency allocation
• TDMA in GSM
• Logical channels
• Major bit error sources
• General error handling methods
• GSM-specific radio features
Base Station System
• BTS functions
• BSC functions
• Radio network planning
Core Network
• MSC, GMSC
• SGSN, GGSN
• HLR, VLR
• AUC, EIR
• SMS-C
• IWU
Traffic cases and Procedures
• Security
• Location Updating
• Roaming
• From “Power on” to “Traffic”
• Handover

Who should attend?

GSM Survey is valuable to everybody who needs a thorough
understanding of the GSM system. Typical examples of staff benefiting
from GSM Survey are engineers who are new in the field of mobile
telecommunications, managers, sales staff and administrators.

Prerequisites
Having prior experience from the field of mobile telecommunications is
advantageous but not required.

 For more information about in-house training events, please

send an email to Widermind at info@widermind.com. The
schedule for public training events is available at the Widermind
web site, www.widermind.com.
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SE-114 51 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 459 21 70
Fax: +46 8 459 21 71
info@widermind.com

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