this is a textbook about GSM. it is good for any one that need any knowledge on GSM or telecommunications engineeers

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With around 3 billion subscribers, GSM is the world's most commonly used technology for wireless communication. Providing an overview of the innovations that have fuelled this phenomena, GSM: Architecture, Protocols and Services, Third Edition offers a clear introduction to the field of cellular systems. Special emphasis is placed on system architecture and protocol aspects, and topics range from addressing concepts through mobility management to network management.

This third edition contains around 25% new and reworked material and has been thoroughly updated to encompass recent advances and future trends. It serves as both an introductory textbook for graduate students as well as a reference resource for telecommunications engineers and researchers.


This edition:


Presents capacity enhancement methods like sectorization, the application of adaptive antennas for Spatial Filtering for Interference Reduction (SFIR) and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
Provides a detailed introduction to GPRS, HSCSD, and EDGE for packet-switched services and higher data rates
Features updated coverage on the vastly expanded range of GSM services, including an examination of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
Adopts a highly graphical approach with numerous illustrations



TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction
1.1 The Idea of Unbounded Communication

1.2 The Success of GSM

1.3 Classification of Mobile Communication Systems

1.4 Some GSM History and Statistics

1.5 Overview of the Book


2 The Mobile Radio Channel and the Cellular Principle

2.1 Characteristics of the Mobile Radio Channel

2.2 Separation of Directions and Duplex Transmission

2.3 Multiple Access

2.4 Cellular Technology

3 System Architecture and Addressing

3.1 System Architecture

3.2 The SIM concept

3.3 Addressing

3.4 Registers and Subscriber Data

3.4.1 Location Registers (HLR and VLR)

3.4.2 Security-Related Registers (AUC and EIR)

3.4.3 Subscriber Data

3.5 Network Interfaces and Configurations

3.5.1 Interfaces

3.5.2 Configurations


4 Air Interface - Physical Layer

4.1 Logical Channels

4.1.1 Traffic Channels

4.1.2 Signalling Channels

4.1.3 Example: Connection Setup for Incoming Call

4.1.4 Bit Rates, Block Lengths, and Block Distances

4.1.5 Combinations of Logical Channels

4.2 Physical Channels

4.3 Synchronization

4.4 Mapping of Logical onto Physical Channels

4.5 Radio Subsystem Link Control

4.6 Power-up Scenario

4.7 Channel Coding, Source Coding, and Speech Processing

4.8 Source Coding and Speech Processing

4.9 Channel Coding


5 Protocols

5.1 Protocol Architecture Planes

5.2 Protocol Architecture of the User Plane

5.3 Protocol Architecture of the Signaling Plane

5.4 Signaling at the Air Interface (Um)

5.5 Signaling at the A and Abis Interfaces

5.6 Security-Related Network Functions: Authentication and Encryption

5.7 Signaling at the User Interface


6 Roaming and Handover

6.1 Mobile Application Part Interfaces

6.2 Location Registration and Location Update

6.3 Connection Establishment and Termination

6.4 Handover



7 Improved Data Services in GSM: GPRS, HSCSD, and EDGE

7.1 System Architecture

7.2 Services

7.3 Session Management, Mobility Management, and Routing

7.4 Protocol Architecture

7.5 Signaling Plane

7.6 Interworking with IP Networks

7.7 Air Interface

7.8 Authentication and Ciphering

7.9 Summary

7.10 HSCSD — High Speed Circuit Switched Data

7.11 EDGE — Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution


8 Services

8.1 Classical GSMServices

8.2 Popular GSMServices—SMS andMMS

8.3 Overview of GSMServices in Phase 2+

8.4 Bearer and Teleservices of GSMPhase 2+

8.5 Supplementary Services in GSM Phase 2+

8.6 Service Platforms

8.7 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)


9 Beyond GSM and UMTS: 4G


A Data Communication and Networking

A.1 Reference Configuration

A.2 Overview of Data Communication

A.3 Service Selection at Transitions between Networks

A.4 Bit Rate Adaptation

A.5 Asynchronous Data Services

A.5.1 Transparent Transmission in the Mobile Network

A.5.2 Nontransparent Data Transmission

A.5.3 PAD Access to Public Packet-Switched Data Networks

A.6 Synchronous Data Services

A.6.1 Overview

A.6.2 Synchronous X.25 Packet Data Network Access

A.7 Teleservices: Fax


B Aspects of Network Operation 314

B.1 Objectives of GSMNetworkManagement

B.2 Telecommunication Management Network (TMN)

B.3 TMN Realization in GSM Networks

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