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ELET 6302
Motivation
Outline
Introduction and history.
GSM architecture.
Implementation.
Technology and standards.
Summary
Introduction
Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)
Source: Hillebrand, 1
GSM Architecture
Home Location Register Network
Management
BTS = Base Transceiver Station Center
AuC
AuC = Authentication Center
Equipment ID
OMC = Operation and Maintenance Center
PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network
ME = Mobile Equipment Visitor Location OMC
Register
Subscriber B
Identity ME T Mobile
S
Data
Module switching
communication
center network
Subscriber B Base station
Identity ME T
Module
S
controller
Subscriber B
Identity ME T PSTN
S
Module
Source: Stallings, 313
Source: Mehrotra, 27
GSM Architecture
MS Transmission BS Transmission
Band : 890 915 Band : 935 960
MHZ MHZ
45 MHz
Year Introduced 1990
Billions of Calls
Millions of Subscribers
Thousand of Different Types of Telephones
Hundreds of Countries
Dozens of Manufacturers. Administrative data
And only one Card: The SIM Security data
Subscriber data
Roaming data
PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network
>Channel encoding
>Interleaving
Voice encoding Ciphering Modulation Amplifier
>Burst generation
Transmitter
Central processor, clock and tone, internal bus system, keyboard
(HMI)
Source: Heine, 14
Implementation
Slow frequency
HF Transmitter
Transmission
Output filter TRX Abis-
(HF-TX) Interface
system
hopping
Digital signal
HF Receiver processing (NF
Input filter (HF-RX) functionality)
Source: Heine, 20
GSM Variants
Variant Uplink Downlink Total Duplex- Channels
(MHz) (MHz) Bandwidth frequency
GSM-400 451-458 and 461-468 and Twice 14 MHz 10 MHz Twice 72
479-486 489-496
Mehrotra, Asha. GSM System Engineering. Norwood, MA: Artech House, Inc.,
1997.