Table of Contents

Acknowledgement v
Abstract vi
List of Figures .. vii
List of Tables ...
Abbreviations ..............
Chapter 1 Introduction ...
1.1. Background ..
1.2. Objectives ....
1.3. Organization of thesis ..
Chapter 2 3G Mobile Networks .
2.1. Generations of Cellular Systems .
2.1.1. First generation..
2.1.2. Second generation...
2.1.3. Third generation..
2.2. Radio access technique ....
2.3. The Frame structure of TD-SCDMA ...
2.3.1. TD-SCDMA Specifics...
Chapter 3
The basic entities of the mobile system ..
3.1. The core Network (CN) entities ..
3.2. Entities common to the PS and CS domain .
3.2.1. The Home Location Register (HLR) .
3.2.2. The Visitor Location Register (VLR) ...
3.2.3. The Authentication Center (AuC) .
3.2.4. The Equipment Identity Register (EIR) .
3.2.5. SMS Gateway MSC (SMS-GMSC) ..
3.2.6. SMS Interworking MSC ...
3.3. Entities of the CS domain
3.3.1. The Mobile-services Switching Centre (MSC)...
3.3.2. MSC Server.
3.3.3. The Interworking Function (IWF)..
3.4. The specific entities of the mobile system...
Chapter 4
Implementation and analysis ..
Chapter 5
Conclusion .
Appendix A