UMTS Signaling Abstract Wiley & Sons, 2005 ISBN 0-470-01351-6

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Tektronix Network Diagnostics Academy trained already hundreds of students in UMTS and other
experience mobile technologies and in testing mobile networks.
The experience from these trainings and our close customer relations pointed out, that a book on
UMTS Signaling is desperately needed.
We collected all the material that was available at Tektronix and that was provided by our partners at
network equipment vendors and network operators to add it to this unique selection.
The authors would like to acknowledge the effort and time invested by all our colleagues
at Tektronix, who have contributed to this book.
Special thanks go to Jens Irrgang and Christian Villwock, Tektronix MPT, Berlin for their
Co-Authorship and their valuable advice and input.
Without Juergen Placht (Sanchar GmbH) this book would not exist. His unbelievable knowledge,
experience and efforts in preparing the very first slide sets for UMTS scenarios laid the basis for the
material you have now in front of you.
Additionally, the material that Magnar Norderhus, Hummingbird, Duesseldorf, prepared for the first
UMTS Training for Tektronix was the very first source that we have blown up for part one of this
book.
Many thanks go to Joerg Nestle Product Design, Munich, for doing a great job in the creation of all the
graphics.
We would like to express thanks to Othmar Kyas, Marketing Manager of Tektronix
Monitor & Protocol Test for his strong believe in the Tektronix Network Diagnostics Academy, in
UMTS Signaling and for challenging us to make this book become real.
Of course we must not forget to thank Mark Hammond and the team at Wiley. Mark wanted us to do
the book and kept us moving, even though it took so much time to get all the permissions aligned with
Tektronix.
Last but not least a special 'thank you' to our families and friends for their ongoing and infinite patience
and their support throughout this project.

Berlin, Germany
Ralf Kreher, Torsten Ruedebusch

UMTS Signaling Abstract Wiley & Sons, 2005 ISBN 0-470-01351-6