GSM Call Setup

Presented By: Md. Alamgir Bhuyan Level:4 Term:2 CSE

Communication Engineering

GSM Call Setup

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Mobile Station = phone + SIM card Base Transceiver Station Base Station Controller Home Location Register Mobile services Switching Centre Visitor Location Register Authentication Centre Stand-alone or integrated in HLR EIR Equipment Identity Register For blacklisting stolen and unwanted equipment SMSC Short Message Service Support Centre VMS Voice Messaging System PrePaid Node Hosting prepaid service system IN Intelligent Network services PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange

PSTN Fixed network

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Voicemail

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BSC
Base Station Controller

The call request reaches the BSC from the BTS and is forwarded to MSC. After call is established, the BSC will perform decoding of the call (in typical config.)

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Voicemail

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Checks A number. To whom is A subscriber calling? (Checks B number) Example : A subscriber has GP prepaid.

MSC
Mobile Switching Centre

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HLR

VMS
Voicemail

EIR MSC SMSC

INTERNET

PrePaid IN

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BSC

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PABX

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Voicemail

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Does the A subscriber have money left on his/her account? When the call is established and on-going onthe subscriber s account is decremented accordingly.

PrePaid Node

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VMS
Voicemail

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INTERNET

PrePaid IN

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Where is the B subscriber? MSC interrogates in HLR.

(HLR = Home Location Register)

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Mobile Switching Centre

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VMS
Voicemail

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PrePaid IN

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HLR says I am the home of the B subscriber and I know where he/she is right now (i.e. which VLR) Tells this VLR Give me a visitor address for this subscriber (MSRN)

HLR
Home Location Register

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Hosting MSC/VLR returns B subscriber s assigned MSRN.

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Mobile Switching Centre

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Thanks for the visitor address! I will send this address to the MSC that requested for it.

HLR
Home Location Register

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Thank you, HLR! Speech connection is set up towards the MSC/VLR where the B subscriber is residing.

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Mobile Switching Centre

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Setting up a speech connection towards BSC.

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BSC will now send a paging signal to all the BTSs that it covers. Coding of speech when call is established.

BSC
Base Station Controller

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HLR

VMS
Voicemail

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PrePaid IN

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Fixed Network

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The B subscriber has now many choices:

He/she may answer. He/she may be busy. The mobile (MS) may be forwarded. The mobile may be turned off or outside coverage area. And more...

What happens next depends on the B subscriber s condition and what he/she chooses to do.

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Thank you!