Syllabus

This is an introductory course in the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) and the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The topics covered by this course are the following:

A brief overview of mobile communication systems and major standards.
An introduction of GSM: key features, mobility concepts, services and technical characteristics.
The architecture of a GSM network, the GSM functional entities: the mobile station, the base station subsystem (BSS), the network and switching subsystem (NSS), and the operations and management subsystem (OMS), the GSM interfaces, and the GSM geographical distribution.
The GSM addresses and identifiers: mobile subscriber identity numbers, mobile equipment identity numbers, and network identifiers.
Call routing in GSM: mobile terminating calls, mobile originating calls, and calls between mobile subscribers.
Data services in GSM: circuit switched data (CSD) and high-speed circuit switched data (HSCSD).
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS): overview and key features.
The architecture of a GPRS network and GPRS functional entities.
Data transfer in a GPRS network.
Enhanced Rates for GSM/Global Evolution (EDGE): key features and data rates.
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS): the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), and mobility features.

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