2010 Midterm Mobility Management 1. Describe the GSM network architecture. 2.

(i) Describe the following mobile identities: MSISDN, IMSI, TMSI, IMEI (ii) Which of the identities above are known to the GSM users? (iii) What are the advantages of TMSI over IMSI? 3. Can two VLRs generate the same TMSI? 4. How does an MS perform the very first registration? 5. Can you have more than one MSISDN numbers associated with one SIM card? Can two SIM cards have the same MSISDN number? Why? Chapter 1 1. Describe the procedure of SMS delivery from an MS to the other MS. (i) If the acknowledgment request is specified in the short message, which component will send an acknowledgement back to the original MS? (ii) If the short message receiver is not attached to the network (e.g., the MS is turned off), which component will resend the message until success or the message is expired? 2. Describe the NCTU-SMS architecture. What is the NCTU-SMS delivery state tree? 3. Describe the SMS architecture. Does delivery of SMS affects voice call setup? Does it affect voice conversation? 4. Compare the two SMS-IP integration approaches: NCTU-SMS (an approach involving SM-SC) and iSMS (an approach that does not involve SM-SC). Which approach will experience longer transmission delay for end-to-end short message delivery? 5. Describe the three service types defined in iSMS. Can you define a new service type for iSMS? Chapter 2 1. Draw the GSM/GRPS/UMTS networks architectures. 2. Why is RA introduced in GPRS and UMTS? Can we eliminate the concept of RA so that both SGSN and VLR track LA? 3. Consider the RRC state machine in Figure 2.4. In the Cell

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Connected Mode, how does the machine know when to move to Idle Mode, and when to move to URA Connected Mode? What is the purpose of periodic location update? How do you set the periodic RA update timer? Draw the message flows for intra-SGSN RA update and interSGSN RA update. Draw the message flow for inter-SGSN SRNC relocation. Draw the message flow for combined hard handoff with SRNC relocation.

Chapter 4 1. Describe the meta-functions performed in the GGSN. 2. What is APN? In UMTS, which network nodes maintain the APN information? 3. In the PDP context activation procedure, how is the IP address of the GGSN derived? 4. Describe and compare the three tunneling techniques used between UMTS and external PDN Chapter 5 1. What is SRNC? What is DRNC? Draw a figure to illustrate which is the SRNC and which is the DRNC. 2. Describe SRNC duplication (SD), core network bi-casting (CNB), and fast SRNC relocation (FSR).