Ericsson’s GSM System Model
Switching System SS MXE
AUC
MIN
HLR EIR
GMSC
MSC/
VLR
Base Station System BSS
BSC OSS
Signaling
Traffic and Signaling RBS
MS
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OSS
Operation and
Support System
NMC
OMC OMC
MIN
MSC HLR
BSC AUC /
EIR
BTS
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Location Updating
(1)
(2a)
(2c)
(5)
(2b)
BSC MSC/VLR
BTS
(3)
(4a)
(4b)
(6)
(7b) (7a)
1) System Information 4) Authentication
2) Radio Resource (RR) 5) Updating
Connection Establishment 6) Acceptance
3) Service Indication 7) Channel Release
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Mobile Originating Call Establishment
(1a) (2) (1b)
(2)
VLR
BSC MSC
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
1a, b) RR connection establishment
2) Service request
3) Authentication
4) Ciphering mode setting
5) Call initiation
6) Assignment of a TCH
7) User alerting
8) Call accepted
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Call to MS from PSTN
(1)
(2) (3)
Transit GMSC HLR
Exchange
(6a) (5)
PSTN
(6b)
(4)
MSC/VLR
Signaling Connection (7)
Speech Path
BSC
(8) (8)
(9) (9)
BTS BTS
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Inter MSC Handover of A Call
(8)
(1)
BSC MSC
(8) (8)
(11) (11) (7)
PSTN
(9a)
(11) (10) (6) (2)
(9b)
(11)
(11)
(11) (10)
(10) (5)
BSC MSC
(4) (3)
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TDMA offset
TDMA frame No.
0 1
Downlink 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Uplink 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0 1
offset
TDMA frame No.
BTS to MS transmission
MS to BTS transmission
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Mapping of Logical Channels
C0 Downlink Uplink
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
F T D0 T T T T T R T A5 T T T T T
S T D0 R T A5
B T D0 R T A5
B T D0 R T A5
B T D1 R T A6
B T D1 R T A6
C T D1 R T A6
C T D1 R T A6
C T D2 R T A7
C T D2 R T A7
F T D2 R T A7
S T D2 R T A7
C A D3 I A I A I R A I I A I A I
C T D R T I
3
C T D3 R T I
C T D3 R T D0
C T D4 R T D0
C T D4 R T D0
C T D R T D
4 0
C T D4 R T D1
F T D5 R T D1
S T D5 R T D1
C T D5 R T D1
C T D5 R T D2
C T D6 R T D2
C I D6 A I A I A R I D2 A I A I A
C T D6 R T D2
C T D6 R T D3
C T D7 R T D3
C T D7 R T D3
F T D7 R T D3
S T D7 R T D4
C T A0 R T D4
C T A0 R T D4
C T A0 R T D4
C T A0 R T D5
C T A1 R T D5
C T A1 R T D5
C A A I A I A I R A D I A I A I
1 5
C T A1 R T D6
F T A2 R T D6
S T A2 R T D6
C T A2 R T D6
C T A R T D
2 7
C T A3 R T D7
C T A3 R T D7
C T A3 R T D7
C T A3 R T A0
C T I R T A0
C T I R T A0
I T I R T A0
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Um – Abis Connection
S T S T T T T T
TRX 1
S T S T T T T T
T T T T T T T T
TRX 2
T T T T T T T T
%6&
c0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 …. 31
S = Signaling
T = Fullrate traffic Synch S
T T T T
S
T T T T …
T T T T T T T T
TRX 1 TRX 2
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