GSM Architecture Overview
Worldwide GSM deployment
Trends in mobile telecommunications
GSM network components
GSM identities
GSM interfaces
GSM and Intelligent Networking (CAMEL)
GSM and 3GPP
The GSM Air Interface
Radio link and user access
Physical channels and logical channels
Different types of channels
Frames and channel coding
Call setups using the radio channels
GSM Services
Bearer services and teleservices
Phase I, Phase II and Phase 2+
Short Message Service (SMS)
Supplementary Services (various)
Roaming and Call Flow Scenarios
Location Updating
Authentication and ciphering
Mobile originated calls
Mobile terminated calls
Short Message Service (SMS)
Handovers
Signaling in GSM
Signaling across the various interfaces
Links – low-speed & high-speed
Network interconnection
SS7 protocol and GSM
3GPP standards
A-Interface
Signaling on the A-interface
Connection-oriented SCCP
BSSMAP and DTAP
Call flows across the A-interface
GSM Mobile Application Part (MAP)
ITU-T TCAP structure
3GPP Standards
GSM MAP operations
GSM MAP parameters
GSM MAP standards documents
ISDN-UP in handovers
Introduction to GPRS
GPRS architecture
Services
Session, mobility and location management
Protocol overview
GSM MAP standards documents
GPRS channels